O’Erpine

a person looking at a grave

O’Erpine

v. intr.
to wander through the grounds of a cemetery, glancing over the gravestones as if you were people-watching the dead, imagining all the things they must have seen and the lives they might have led, trying to conjure up an entire biography from a handful of words and dates etched in granite, with barely more than a single dash to cover the unimaginable vastness of their experience.

From over, finished and done with + pine, to yearn or grieve for something. Compare the flowering perennial orpine, also called autumn joy or live-forevers, which is often found in open sunny areas of cemeteries. Pronounced “awr-pahyn.”

Echthesia

blurry image of two clocks

Heart Of Aces

a person covering their eyes with their hands

Thwit

close-up of a person with forehead wrinkled and holding their head

Epistrix

several doors standing in a dark room

Vellichor

shelves with many books stacked and organized

Appriesse

a blurry image of a person looking at mounted images

Keir

a snowy landscape with trees and a fence

Mithenness

a person standing on the side of a road

Halfwise

a train coming towards the camera shot from the tracks

Aulasy

a blurry image of a house on the road

O’Erpine

a person looking at a grave

Kerisl

piles of old books scattered in an abandoned room

Énouement

a hand opening a curtain

Present-Tense

a close-up of a stopwatch

Ecury

a close-up of cave drawings and symbols

Spinning Playback Head

silhouette of a person looking out a window

Zysia

a kite soaring above an empty landscape

Tirosy

a close-up of a young child's face

Grayshift

a spiral staircase from above

Thrapt

Cover image for the Thrapt word card on the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

Insoucism

Cover image for the Insoucism word card on the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

Latigo

aerial view of a city at night

Innity

a neatly made bed with diffused light glowing

Galagog

a person alone in a snowy desolate landscape

Los Vidados

Cover image for the Los Vidados word card on the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

Nowlings

a pile of black and white puzzle pieces

Bye-Over

Cover image for the Bye-Over word card on the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows