The Only Use of
obituary
in
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- This young girl kept a scrap-book when she was alive, and used to paste obituaries and accidents and cases of patient suffering in it out of the Presbyterian Observer, and write poetry after them out of her own head.
Chpt 17obituaries = death notices -- typically with a short biographies
Definition:
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(obituary) a published notice of someone's death -- usually printed in a newspaper with a short biographyeditor's notes: The section of the newspaper that reports deaths is called the "Obituaries".