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thanatopsis
[ than-uh-top-sis ]
noun
- a view or contemplation of death.
- (initial capital letter, italics) a poem (1817) by William Cullen Bryant.
thanatopsis
/ ˌθænəˈtɒpsɪs /
noun
- a meditation on death, as in a poem
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Word History and Origins
Origin of thanatopsis1
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Word History and Origins
Origin of thanatopsis1
C19: from Greek thanatos death + opsis a view
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Example Sentences
"Thanatopsis" was the hymn of his meditations among those solitary woods.
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Between this date and that of the publication of "Thanatopsis" there sweeps an arch of forty-eight years.
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Of the poems of this class, "Thanatopsis," of which we have already spoken, is one of the best known.
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Who ever learned "Thanatopsis" on the summit of the Catskills, and afterwards forgot a line of it?
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The son postpones his expression and leans against a jungle to a fourth encore of the tuneful Thanatopsis.
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