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/nɛˈkɹɒlədʒi/ · noun
(church history) A church register containing the names of those connected with the church who have died..
2006 Marc Fisher; We Loved That Airline To Death; Washington Post The fare structure is one reason Independence Air has joined a necrology of low-cost carriers that stretches over four decades.
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.
Hershel Weinshenk-Tausik in Prague, who 1655 wrote a necrology on the chazzan Lippman Popper
Use necrology when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Necrology means (church history) A church register containing the names of those connected with the church who have died..
Common synonyms include obituary, obit.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
2006 Marc Fisher; We Loved That Airline To Death; Washington Post The fare structure is one reason Independence Air has joined a necrology of low-cost carriers that stretches over four decades.
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