obit
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (British) IPA: /ˈɒbɪt/, /ˈəʊbɪt/
obit (plural obits)
- (archaic) Death of a person. [14th-17th c.]
- (Christianity, historical) A mass or other service held for the soul of a dead person. [from 14th c.]
- 1971, Keith Thomas (historian), Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society 2012, p. 582:
- Medieval wills often contained bequests to pay for the singing of special (non-perpetual) masses on the testator's behalf. These obits, as they were called, combined alms for the poor with masses for the dead.
- 1971, Keith Thomas (historian), Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society 2012, p. 582:
- A record of a person's death. [from 15th c.]
- (British) IPA: /ˈəʊbɪt/, /əˈbɪt/
obit (plural obits)
- (colloquial) An obituary.
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