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Empty tomb   /ˈɛmpti tum/   Listen
Empty tomb

noun
1.
A monument built to honor people whose remains are interred elsewhere or whose remains cannot be recovered.  Synonym: cenotaph.






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"Empty tomb" Quotes from Famous Books



... Apollo in Pergamus The hallowed. Therebefore the sons of Troy Gathered, and reared a cenotaph for those Who miserably had perished. Over it Their father from his blind eyes rained the tears: Over the empty tomb their mother shrieked, Boding the while yet worse things, wailing o'er The ruin wrought by folly of her lord, Dreading the anger of the Blessed Ones. As when around her void nest in a brake In sorest anguish moans the nightingale Whose fledglings, ere they learned her plaintive song, A hideous ...
— The Fall of Troy • Smyrnaeus Quintus



Words linked to "Empty tomb" :   cenotaph, memorial, monument



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