Usage examples (16)

• Man's introduction could be understood as the uncomfortable relation between obsequiousness and obsequy, that is, between the awkward coincidence of following one's...
• Elizabeth's address is a kind of obsequy over, or elegy for, realism.
• The next stanza speaks of "Dye Apguylamys," who is told to prepare the obsequy for Love, and of "Lady Apylton," who had offered a "mass-penny," and the epitaph ends with...
• And "You knew Mr. Bowen was no longer living?" she said, with fit obsequy of tone.