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pay one's last respects (third-person singular simple present pays one's last respects, present participle paying one's last respects, simple past and past participle paid one's last respects)
- (intransitive) To visit the place where the remains of a dead person has been prepared for burial or cremation, either as a private act of remembrance or as a public display to others.
- 1822 The Christian Journal, and Literary Register
- Mr. Thompson performed the service, and I preached a sermon to a crowded congregation of friends and mourners, who came together to pay their last respects to the remains of their friend and benefactor
1827, John Robinson, Archæologia Græca:The persons that attended funerals were the friends and relations of the deceased, who thought themselves obliged to pay their last respects to the dead.
1851, Charles Dickens, Household Words:And now to-day you've done your duty by her; paid your last respects to her memory, as I may say, and so you have nothing to reproach yourself with.
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