Graveside

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The area immediately around a grave.

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"Silence accompanies the most significant expressions of happiness and unhappiness: those in love understand one another best when silent, while the most heated and impassioned speech at a graveside touches only outsiders, but seems cold and inconsequential to the widow and children of the deceased."

Etymology

From grave + -side.

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