Burial
Burial noun - The act or ceremony of putting a dead body in its final resting place.
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Rites and burial are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Rites" instead a noun "Burial".
Nearby Word: buried
Rites
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Octavius: According to his virtue let us use him With all respect and rites of burial.
Source: Due to the Dead - In Connie Willis' Doomsday Book, the abbreviated funeral rites instituted for the Black Death require that the church bell be tolled after each burial: nine times for a man, thrice for a woman and once for a child.
Source: For Doom the Bell Tolls -
It's especially heartwarming considering that Beocca, a Catholic Priest, is going out of his way to ensure that she receives Pagan burial rites.
Source: Series / The Last Kingdom
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