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Last respects   /læst rɪspˈɛkts/   Listen
Last respects

noun
1.
The act of expressing respect for someone who has died.





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"Last respects" Quotes from Famous Books



... later, all who were left on the rancho gathered in the sala to pay the last respects of the living, who soon must die, to the dead, who but a short time before lived. There was no minister, no priest to be had. Mrs. Conroyal read the church service for the dead over the body of the unfortunate ...
— The Cave of Gold - A Tale of California in '49 • Everett McNeil
... The last respects have barely been paid to the fallen, when a Saracen herald summons Charlemagne to meet the emir. So the French mount to engage in ...
— The Book of the Epic • Helene A. Guerber
... the honour of that fanatical preacher) had been permitted to attended the monarch. His nephew the prince elector, the duke of Richmond, the marquess of Hertford, and several other noblemen, came to the door of his bedchamber, to pay their last respects to ...
— The History of England from the First Invasion by the Romans - to the Accession of King George the Fifth - Volume 8 • John Lingard and Hilaire Belloc


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