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Entombment vs Obsequies - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between entombment and obsequies

is that entombment is the act of entombing or the state of being entombed while obsequies is funeral rites.

entombment

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The act of entombing or the state of being entombed
  • The decommissioning of a radioactive site by encasing it in concrete

    • obsequies

    English

    Noun

  • (label) funeral rites
  • see obsequy

    • Usage notes

    * the plural only usage is favored by the Oxford Dictionary obsequies ('obsequy' not listed)]. Oxford Dictionaries Online, Oxford University Press, and thus can be considered to be British, whereas Webster's dictionary, with prevalence of the usage in the plural being noted, gives both singular and plural forms of the word[http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/obsequy obsequy. Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary. * in modern usage, not to be confused with obsequious

    References

    * The Pocket Oxford Dictionary and Thesaurus. American Edition. Oxford University Press, 1997 * Webster's Encyclopedic Unabridged Dictionary of the English Language . Random House, 1996. ----