(n.) That which pertains to, or is called forth by, the obit or death of a person; esp., an account of a deceased person; a notice of the death of a person, accompanied by a biographical sketch.
(n.) A list of the dead, or a register of anniversary days when service is performed for the dead.
Example Sentences:
(1) It was very sweet, really nice, but it was like an obituary.
(2) Lech Kaczynski obituary Read more Many followers of Jarosław Kaczyński think the plane was downed by an intended blast and blame Russia and Poland’s prime minister at the time, Donald Tusk, who is now the president of the European Union.
(3) The following correction was printed in the Guardian's Corrections and clarifications column, Saturday November 17 2007 The obituary below said that some of the uranium used in the Little Boy atom bomb was snatched from Soviet-occupied Germany in 1945 by an Anglo-American special unit.
(4) In his book School Worship: An Obituary (1975), he argued against the practice of compulsory worship in inclusive schools.
(5) To my generation, death was as remote as the obituary pages of the newspaper.
(6) Twitter meanwhile is preparing career obituaries for Onyewu.
(7) Last year's annual report by the UN Conference on Trade and Development should have been an obituary for the neoliberal model developed by Hayek and Friedman and their disciples.
(8) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Jo Cox: ‘We’ve lost a great star’ – video obituary “Jo Cox was the most vivacious, personable, dynamic and committed friend you could ever have,” he said.
(9) Even after the Daily Mail's Jack Tinker (obituary, October 29 1996) contrived for Shulman's career as a theatre critic to be brought to an end in 1991, he continued to write a column for the Evening Standard on art affairs - until he was 83.
(10) Your obituary of Michael Meacher (22 October) underplays his significant contribution to the promotion of genuinely green policies.
(11) · Henry Bernard Levin, journalist, born August 19, 1928; died August 7, 2004 Quentin Crewe died in 1998, and the above obituary has been revised.
(12) He served fleetingly as a Confederate soldier before deserting ("his career as a soldier was brief and inglorious," said the New York Times obituary; in the autobiography Twain includes a sympathetic account of deserting soldiers being shot, without revealing the reason for his sense of identification).
(13) I was first of the "extraordinary talent" Anthony Sampson (obituary, December 21) recruited for Drum magazine.
(14) Updated at 10.47pm GMT 10.24pm GMT The Guardian's David Beresford, who was appointed Johannesburg correspondent in 1984, has filed an obituary of Nelson Mandela.
(15) Steve Howard, CEO of The Climate Group and chair of the World Economic Forum's Global Agenda Council on Climate Change "It's probably a bit too early to be writing the obituary of COP 16 just yet.
(16) Christine Cole Northampton • I think Philip Bowring almost completely misses the point in his obituary of Lee Kuan Yew.
(17) • Frankie Knuckles obituary • Frankie Knuckles - house pioneer and DJ - dies aged 59
(18) The following March, Milosevic was arrested on the orders of the liberal Serbian prime minister Zoran Djindjic, later to be assassinated ( obituary, March 13 2003 ).
(19) After his death the obituaries proclaimed Bellows one of the greatest of all American painters – a man more famous at the time than his friend and contemporary Edward Hopper.
(20) It was not until both Rothermere (obituary, September 3 1998) and his editor David English (obituary, June 11 1998) died within a short space of time that Dempster became inevitably less secure under the younger Lord Rothermere and Mail editor Paul Dacre.
Remembrance
Definition:
(n.) The act of remembering; a holding in mind, or bringing to mind; recollection.
(n.) The state of being remembered, or held in mind; memory; recollection.
(n.) Something remembered; a person or thing kept in memory.
(n.) That which serves to keep in or bring to mind; a memorial; a token; a memento; a souvenir; a memorandum or note of something to be remembered.
(n.) Something to be remembered; counsel; admoni//on; instruction.
(n.) Power of remembering; reach of personal knowledge; period over which one's memory extends.
Example Sentences:
(1) Similar scenes of remembrance played out across the country – in a show of emotion not seen since the 1937 funeral of Tomas Garrigue Masaryk, Czechoslovakia's first president after the nation was founded in 1918.
(2) An ITV news presenter who has been subject to racist and sexist abuse for her decision not to wear a Remembrance Day poppy said she made her decision in order to be "neutral and impartial on-screen".
(3) "And I think that there was some major journalist [the Channel Four news presenter Jon Snow in 2010] who would be as big a supporter of Remembrance Day as anybody, but who said he didn't wear a poppy because he felt people were telling him he should do it.
(4) Sixteen Anglican chaplains are understood to be spending Remembrance Sunday on active service in Helmand, Afghanistan.
(5) He has appointed Tory MP Andrew Murrison, a former Royal Navy medical officer, as his special representative for the remembrance.
(6) Sunday's remembrance ceremony at the Cenotaph in Whitehall did not offer much in the way of opportunities for error.
(7) This sporting occasion did begin in remembrance of one of the most remarkable campaigns for justice, against a scandalous police cover-up, but it ended largely in rancour, and complaints about a referee, Mark Halsey.
(8) Following the Last Post, wreaths will be laid and the Act of Remembrance will finish with a royal salute.
(9) "This is a test; we have to confront it, we have to resist, we have to fight," he told a remembrance ceremony for former French prime minister Michel Debré in Amboise, central France .
(10) His critics have variously attacked him for not bowing low enough at the cenotaph on Remembrance Sunday , appearing not to sing the national anthem at a service and “snubbing” the Rugby World Cup opening ceremony by turning down an invitation to attend.
(11) "The Remembrance Sunday Service at the Cenotaph has always contained prayers and readings from scripture, and the fact that it continues to be so central a part of our public life would suggest that it is meeting people's pastoral needs," said the Venerable Peter Eagles, archdeacon for the army.
(12) It has been found that chlorpromazine tends to lessen the incidental memory in extent and increase the number of allomnesias or instances of inaccurate remembrance, whereas amphetamine has the effects of increasing the extent of the incidental memory and reducing the number of allomnesias.
(13) On the third anniversary last year, 19 mothers of the island’s dead wrote to Conservative prime minister Erna Solberg asking for Utøya to stay closed, and to remain as a place of remembrance.
(14) It is the culmination of a long and painful attempt to find a balance between politics and grief, courage and remembrance, youth and parenthood, moving on and looking back.
(15) The Glasgow Games will be followed immediately by the main, official first world war centenary remembrance service at Glasgow Cathedral – a commemoration seen by pro-unity campaigners as evidence of the UK's powerful shared history.
(16) Samira Ahmed (@SamiraAhmedUK) Hundreds complain about #Marr 's Le Pen interview on Remembrance Sunday.
(17) Then, as customary, our minister issued a prayer, ending in a moment of silent remembrance.
(18) St James's Palace said of Prince William, the Duke of Cambridge: "The Duke's strong view is the poppy is a universal symbol of remembrance, which has no political, religious or commercial connotations."
(19) Accompanied by the Salamanca band of the Rifles, the parade will march from the cathedral to Liberation Monument for the remembrance service.
(20) Malcolm Turnbull asks for investigation into minister Stuart Robert's China trip Read more A media release issued by China MinMetals Corporation said Robert had extended his congratulations “on behalf of the Australian Department of Defence” and had presented “a medal bestowed to him by Australian prime minister in honour of remembrance and blessing”.