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Synonyms for epitaphs

Grammar : Noun
Spell : ep-i-taf, -tahf
Phonetic Transcription : ˈɛp ɪˌtæf, -ˌtɑf

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Définition of epitaphs

Origin :
  • mid-14c., from Old French epitaphe (12c.) and directly from Medieval Latin epitaphium "funeral oration, eulogy," from Greek epitaphion "a funeral oration," noun use of neuter of epitaphos "of a funeral," from epi "at, over" (see epi-) + taphos "tomb, funeral rites," from PIE root *dhembh- "to bury." Among the Old English equivalents was byrgelsleoð.
  • noun inscription on a gravestone
Example sentences :
  • We have epitaphs, too,—all our own as yet, for the world has not discovered them.
  • Extract from : « Tiverton Tales » by Alice Brown
  • His epitaphs and elegies are his best work, and the best of them is that on his mother.
  • Extract from : « A History of English Literature » by George Saintsbury
  • My fancy grew charnel, I talked "of worms, of tombs, and epitaphs."
  • Extract from : « The Works of Edgar Allan Poe » by Edgar Allan Poe
  • So again on Christian epitaphs we find Constantso for Constantio, etc.
  • Extract from : « Latin Pronunciation » by Harry Thurston Peck
  • You can stroll into the churchyard, and move about as if you were ruminating on the epitaphs.
  • Extract from : « A Laodicean » by Thomas Hardy
  • His preference of Latin epitaphs to English epitaphs is an instance.
  • Extract from : « Macaulay's Life of Samuel Johnson » by Thomas Babington Macaulay
  • If He is not for us, the epitaphs and memoirs of time avail nothing.
  • Extract from : « Expositor's Bible: The Book of Job » by Robert Watson
  • Where will you find a poetry more touching than that of these symbols and of these epitaphs?
  • Extract from : « Cosmopolis, Complete » by Paul Bourget
  • I don't like reading the epitaphs of tombstones: they are everlastingly the same.
  • Extract from : « Short Stories » by Fiodor Dostoievski
  • Him Jonson immortalised in one of the sweetest of his epitaphs.
  • Extract from : « Volpone; Or, The Fox » by Ben Jonson

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