obsequies
Britishplural noun
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Origin of obsequies
C14: via Anglo-Norman from Medieval Latin obsequiae (influenced by Latin exsequiae ), from obsequium compliance
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I don’t want to add here to the emotional obsequies being written for the Washington Post, after its latest round of contraction last week.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 9, 2026
The diplomatic focus will be on the part of St Peter's Square where presidents and prime ministers, princes and monarchs will sit waiting for the obsequies to begin.
From BBC • Apr. 25, 2025
In his radio interview, Mr. Medinsky pledged to make it an occasion to remember and to observe all the obsequies.
From New York Times • Jul. 21, 2012
What Levin has written is a diverting meta-thriller implying he is delivering the final obsequies over a once-flourishing but exhausted genre.
From The Guardian • Sep. 8, 2010
The second series of obsequies, commencing on the day after the period of mourning has elapsed, is opened by a lustration termed the consolatory ceremony.
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