Epitaphy
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Epitaphy is a noun meaning The art or practice of writing epitaphs.
Meaning
The art or practice of writing epitaphs.
More Meanings
- (obsolete) An epitaph (description on a gravestone)
Example Sentences
Imaginative epitaphy is no new thing.
One or two of them are curious specimens of epitaphy.
The last words are placed within quotation marks so that Dr. Lowder is perhaps not entitled to the glory of one of the nicest “derangements of epitaphy” we have ever met with.
And after in that ſomer, he wrote an epitaphy in latin, and cauſed it to be written vpõ his tombe of ſtone, which himſelf (while he was lord Chãceller) had cauſed to be made in his pariſhe church of Chelſey (where he dwelled) thre smal Miles frõ London. The copye of which epitaphy here foloweth.
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