Epitaphs is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for EPITAPHS in dictionary:

VERB:
• EPITAPH, to compose an inscription on a tomb
NOUN:
• a phrase or form of words written in memory of a person who has died, especially as an inscription on a tombstone
• something by which a person, time, or event will be remembered

Words related to EPITAPHS

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How to use EPITAPHS in a sentence

• Compare this with the epitaphs of the later popes, as they are found on their monuments in St.
• In the multitude of epitaphs, however, these form but a small number.
• The interior of the temple is full of fine sculptures, epitaphs, and other works in stone, most of which belong to the other temples, but are collected here.
• But more truthful epitaphs should be inscribed over them than is now done.
• It contains few monuments of interest or note, but the surrounding burial-ground can boast of a collection of epitaphs and inscriptions which are above mediocrity.
• They have burying grounds apart from others, because they have conscientious scruples concerning monuments and epitaphs.
• On all were engraved the epitaphs and sculptured insignia of the heroes who had been interred there.
• Those epitaphs are, therefore, the most perfect, which set virtue in the strongest light, and are best adapted to exalt the readers ideas, and rouse his emulation.
• In most of the poetical epitaphs, the names for whom they were composed, may be sought to no purpose, being only prefixed on the monument.
• The former of these epitaphs is very far from being the worst of its kind, and on that account I have placed the two in contrast.
• This manner of writing we still retain, for inscriptions, epitaphs, and other memorials designed to reach posterity.
• Epitaphs were read by the throngs of people who walked around to view them.
• Culpable neglect, it may be added, was sometimes shown in the admission of jesting or profane epitaphs.
• The church door was open, too, and Ruth, after reading some of the epitaphs on the tombstones, went in.
• Sometimes I sent the children to the various stones which stood at the head of the graves, and bid them learn the epitaphs inscribed upon them.
• Through the fair slopes of Eastern Virginia we have wandered and counted the epitaphs of as princely men and women as ever trod this continent.
• But all the broken tragedy of life And all the yearning mystery of death Are celebrated in sweet epitaphs of vines and violets.
• The crust of our earth is a great cemetery where the rocks are tombstones on which the buried dead have written their own epitaphs.
• Later, Goldsmith retaliated with epitaphs on his circle of club friends.
• I shall beg leave to send you a Couple of Epitaphs, for a Sample of those I have just now mentioned.
• You will perceive them as they follow to be conceived in the form of Epitaphs, a sort of Writing which is wholly set apart for a short pointed Method of Praise.
• I should as soon take all the epitaphs in Westminster Abbey, and say it was an epic poem on the History of England.
• Books about Tombs there are many, and volumes of Epitaphs by the hundred.
• She is also said to have been an adept at composing epitaphs, and some attributed to her are extant.
• EPITAPHS Epitaphs, if in rhyme, are the real literature of the masses.
• The tender and emotional epitaphs have a tendency to become either insipid or silly.
• His scheme was not to assemble epitaphs for the dead of the village but to tell crisp anecdotes of the living.
• The epitaphs are much in the same tone as would be found in an English church-yard.
• But later, as I lived among the people here, I knew how near to the life Were the epitaphs that were ordered for them as they died.
• A little apart lie more graves, surmounted by epitaphs written in strange characters, such as few white men can read.
• They are persuaded that very little moral advantage is derived to the cursory readers of epitaphs, or that they can trace their improvement in morals to this source.

Similar words containing TAPH without suffix s and without prefix epi

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