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noun
1.
a notice of the death of a person, often with a biographical sketch, as in a newspaper.
adjective
2.
of, pertaining to, or recording a death or deaths: the obituary page of a newspaper.
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Example Sentences
- Not much depth to their obituary of a rare human being.
- His is a belated obituary for a durable genre long vivified by awareness of its own mortality.
- Today's obituary writers sum up lives famous and not with pans as well as paeans.
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Word Origin & History
obituary
1706, "register of deaths," from M.L. obituarius "a record of the death of a person," lit. "pertaining to death," from L. obitus "departure, a going to meet, encounter" (a euphemism for "death"), from stem of obire "go to meet" (as in mortem obire "meet death"), from ob "to, toward" + ire "go." Meaning
EXPAND"record or announcement of a death, esp. in a newspaper, and including a brief biographical sketch" is from 1738. A similar euphemism is in O.E. cognate forðfaran "to die," lit. "to go forth."
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