homegoing
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homegoings
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a person's death, regarded as the passage to a heavenly home with God, especially observed as a cultural tradition in African American communities.
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Also homegoing service. a funeral, especially in African American communities, celebrating a deceased person's passage to heaven with joy, reflection, and uplifting music.
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The funeral on Wednesday had all the hallmarks of what’s known as a homegoing service in Black American communities: comforting gospel hymns, remembrances from loved ones and a stirring eulogy from a clergyman.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 2, 2023
What are y'all wearing to Twitter's homegoing service?
From Salon ● Nov. 30, 2022
If I were Elizabeth, she would not be welcome at my homegoing service.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2022
After my grandmother’s homegoing only three years earlier, I couldn’t bring myself to experience that again.
From New York Times ● Feb. 11, 2022
Then the Bath minister asked if the bereaved would like to come forward and speak some words to the assembled congregation about this good man, comforting others through an account of this holy man’s homegoing.
From "Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy" by Gary D. Schmidt
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