epitaphology

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English

Etymology

From epitaph +‎ -ology.

Noun

epitaphology (uncountable)

  1. The study of epitaphs.
    • 1880 October 5, “Marriage: Was the Subject of Talmage’s Sunday Morning Sermon, Taking for His Text the Passage from Genesis, “This is Bone of My Bone and Flesh of My Flesh.” ”, in The Memphis Daily Appeal, volume XXXIX, number 236, Memphis, Tenn., section “Hasty and Reckless Words”, page 3, column 4:
      Flattering epitaphology, though Drydens composed it, and polished Aberdeen granite, though Angelos chiseled it, could never atone for unkindnesses to the living.
    • 1987, “Epiphany xi”, in Barry Callaghan, transl., Flowers of Ice, Toronto, Ont.: Exile Editions, translation of original by Imants Ziedonis, →ISBN, page 103:
      At least consider what you’d write in your own will, or on your own stone. It could happen, after all, in 50 year, as your hour draws near, there’ll be a sociological sub-section – epitaphology – the study of your documented life: socio-ethical values decipherable in your tombstone script – and whether you deserve burial in a cemetery, in this enormous bibliographical bastion, or back behind the dam, as soulless pagans were.
    • 2006, Literature of the Graveyard (Studies in the Literary Imagination; volume 39, number 1), page 93:
      In the field of epitaphology, Dr. Johnson opens his essay on the subject by adhering to the familiar topos of claiming new territory for critical exploration:

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