All 3 Uses of
requiem
in
The Brothers Karamazov
- He suddenly took a thousand roubles to our monastery to pay for requiems for the soul of his wife; but not for the second, Alyosha's mother, the "crazy woman," but for the first, Adelaida Ivanovna, who used to thrash him.†
Chpt 1 *
- The reading was begun by Father Iosif immediately after the requiem service.†
Chpt 7
- Meanwhile the time was passing; the monastery services and the requiems for the dead followed in their due course.†
Chpt 7
Definition:
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(requiem) something to honor the memory of someone who died -- especially music written for that purpose or a ceremony