Synonyms for last rites

Grammar : Noun

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noun rites performed for death

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How strange was it, too, that it should have devolved upon me to pay him these last rites.
Extract from : « Confessions Of Con Cregan » by Charles James Lever

On the 16th, at midnight, she received the last rites of the church.
Extract from : « The Reign of Mary Tudor » by W. Llewelyn Williams.

The last rites were performed over the man who might be dead already.
Extract from : « A Little Girl in Old Detroit » by Amanda Minnie Douglas

Why do you refuse to perform the last rites over the body of my daughter?
Extract from : « London's Heart » by B. L. (Benjamin Leopold) Farjeon

Like the Acadians at French Cross, they had no clergyman to pay the last rites.
Extract from : « Amy in Acadia » by Helen Leah Reed

You will not refuse my brother the last rites of the Church?
Extract from : « The Spanish Cavalier » by Charlotte Maria Tucker

On the following day at noon, he received the last rites of the church.
Extract from : « Beethoven » by George Alexander Fischer

The last rites, begun weeks ago, were hurriedly brought to an end during this last night.
Extract from : « From the Caves and Jungles of Hindostan » by Helena Pretrovna Blavatsky

Here it was that the senior Muir conducted service, no doubt pronouncing the last rites for some of those who sleep there.
Extract from : « Baraboo, Dells, and Devil's Lake Region » by H. E. Cole

Here in a little weathered house the last rites and services to the deceased were held.
Extract from : « When Life Was Young » by C. A. Stephens

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