requiescats

noun

plural of requiescat
as in thanksgivings

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  1. invocations
  2. litanies
  3. graces
Noun
  • Their selective invocations of Washington may have obscured his complicity, but some abolitionists truly believed doing so would help bring the horror of American slavery to an end.
    — John Garrison Marks, The Atlantic, 25 July 2026
  • Why the invocations of Tubman, the readings of Du Bois, the visits from Hamer?
    — Ta-Nehisi Coates, Vanity Fair, 15 June 2026
Definition of invocations
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  • Keeping the camera still in a courthouse’s small, windowless chambers, Depardon depicts these face-to-face showdowns as litanies of misery, as the officials make suspects confront the grim circumstances leading to their arrests.
    — Sheldon Pearce, New Yorker, 20 Feb. 2026
  • Hval’s restless melodies and at-times Proustian lyrics trail cigarette smoke or the fragrance of roses toward litanies of memory, all the while deconstructing the very natures of stage performance, recording technology, and digital existence.
    — Jenn Pelly, Time, 4 Dec. 2025
Definition of litanies
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  • Not to mention battling nerds, LARPers, and a particularly petulant McPoyle clan at the Renaissance Faire or sportswashing their way back into the good graces of their community by sponsoring a Little League team.
    — Joe Otterson, Variety, 15 July 2026
  • But every now and then, something truly special graces the 13th Duke of Richmond’s driveway.
    — Jerry Perez, The Drive, 9 July 2026
Definition of graces
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