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Obit vs Omit - What's the difference?

obit | omit |

As a noun obit

is (obsolete) death of a person or obit can be (colloquial) an obituary.

As a verb omit is

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obit

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) obit, (etyl) obit, and their source, (etyl) .

Noun

(en noun)
  • (obsolete) Death of a person.
  • * 1971 , , Religion and the Decline of Magic , Folio Society 2012, p. 582:
  • 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.
  • A record of a person's death.
  • Etymology 2

    Shortened from (obituary).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (colloquial) An obituary.
  • Anagrams

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    omit

    English

    Verb

    (omitt)
  • To leave out or exclude.
  • To fail to perform.
  • (rare) To neglect or take no notice of.
  • Anagrams

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