necrology.

1. A list or register naming people who have recently died.

2. A written notice or biographical account of someone who has died.

Use it for

Words that belong together

• monastic necrology
• annual necrology
• compile a necrology

On the page

The archivist found three unfamiliar names in the monastery's necrology.

Usage notes

Primary category: horror / gothic literary. Lexical Type: Word. Forms: Singular necrology; plural necrologies. Commonness: uncommon (editorial estimate; not a corpus frequency statistic). Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1; numbered fields keep each relevant meaning separate. Research distinction: Noun plural necrologies: obituary; list of the recently dead. Direct full lexical extraction read. Individual writer usefulness checked for a distinct physical, ritual, facial or acoustic function. Definitions/examples are original; genre suitability is not an inherent emotional rating. Writing functions: precise physical or ritual description, gothic scene construction.