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Necrology

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A church register containing the names of those connected with the church who have died. countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    a list of people who died recently wordnet
  3. 3
    A listing of people who have died during a specific period of time. countable, uncountable

    "Voltaire and Rousseau died in 1778, d'Alembert in 1783, and Diderot in 1784, while leading salonnières Mesdames du Deffand and d'Épinay passed away in 1780 and 1783. Beneath this sombre necrology, important shifts were occurring in the workings of the public sphere and in the sites in which opinion was constructed."

  4. 4
    a notice of someone's death; usually includes a short biography wordnet
  5. 5
    A notice of death. countable, uncountable
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  1. 6
    The study of death or the dead. uncountable

Etymology

From necro- + -logy.

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