year's mind

noun

1. a Requiem Mass said one year after a person's death or burial.

Word History and Origins

Origin of year's mind¹

before 1100; Middle English; Old English

Example Sentences

Last year’s “Mind Your Business,” a single with will.i.am, was poorly reviewed and failed to make the Hot 100, though.

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But Houston and its people are definitely on the three-time defensive player of the year’s mind.

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The old services for the dead had been abolished by law, and in the stead of sacrament and ceremony, month's mind and year's mind, the sole substitute which survived was the general desire "to partake," as they called it, of a posthumous discourse, replete with lofty eulogy and flattering remembrance of the living and the dead.

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