Both Uses of
obituary
in
The Sunlight Dialogues
- Then he read the obituaries.†
Chpt 1 *obituaries = published death notices with short biographies
- He would talk cheerfully of this and that, or would settle with his newspaper and after a while read the obituaries aloud.†
Chpt 6
Definition:
a published notice of someone's death -- usually printed in a newspaper with a short biography
The section of the newspaper that reports deaths is called the "Obituaries".