Obit vs Omit - What's the difference?
obit | omit |
(obsolete) Death of a person.
* 1971 , , Religion and the Decline of Magic , Folio Society 2012, p. 582:
A record of a person's death.
To leave out or exclude.
To fail to perform.
(rare) To neglect or take no notice of.
As a noun obit
is (obsolete) death of a person or obit can be (colloquial) an obituary.As a verb omit is
.obit
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Etymology 1
From (etyl) obit, (etyl) obit, and their source, (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- Medieval wills often contained bequests to pay for the singing of special (non-perpetual) masses on the testator's behalf. These obits , as they were called, combined alms for the poor with masses for the dead.