different between obituary vs manslaughter

English

Etymology

From Medieval Latin obituarius, from Latin obitus (“a going to a place, approach, usually a going down, setting (as of the sun), fall, ruin, death”), from obire (“to go or come to, usually go down, set, fall, perish, die”), from ob (“toward, to”) + ire (“to go”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??b?tj????/, /????b?tj????/, /??b?tj???i?/, /????b?tj???i?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /??b?t?u???i/, /o??b?t?u???i/, /??b?t???i/, /o??b?t???i/

Noun

obituary (plural obituaries)

1. A brief notice of a person’s death, as published in a newspaper.
   • 2007, Bridget Fowler, The Obituary as Collective Memory, Routledge (?ISBN)

     Obituary editors are confronted daily with the need to make delicate hermeneutic interpretations of the social meaning of individuals' deaths and to express these powerfully to their readership.

2. A biography of a recently deceased person, written by a journalist and published in a newspaper.
3. A register of deaths in a monastery.

Related terms

• obit
• obitual
• obituarist

Translations

See also

• necrology (listing of people who have died during a specific period of time)

Adjective

obituary (not comparable)

1. Relating to the death of a person.

Further reading

• obituary in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• obituary in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• obituary at OneLook Dictionary Search
• “obituary”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.

English

Etymology

From Middle English mansla?ter, manslauter, equivalent to man +? slaughter, or taken as an adaptation of Old English mannslieht, mannsleaht (“homicide”), from mann (“man, person”) +? slieht, sleaht (“stroke, slaying”), see manslaught. Cognate with Scots manslauchter (“homicide”). Compare also Old Frisian monslaga (“murder”).

Noun

manslaughter (countable and uncountable, plural manslaughters)

1. (obsolete) The slaying of a human being.
2. (law) The unlawful killing of a human, either in negligence or incidentally to the commission of some unlawful act, but without specific malice, or upon a sudden excitement of anger; considered less culpable than murder, but more culpable than justifiable homicide.

Derived terms

Related terms

• self-slaughter

Translations

Further reading

• manslaughter on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• manslaughter at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• slaughterman