Idiom
rest one's soul
Meaning
To wish that a person might find peace in the afterlife.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“May his kind soul rest in peace.”
“We gathered at the cemetery to honor her memory and pray for her soul to rest.”
“As the final notes of the funeral hymn faded, the mourners whispered a collective prayer for the departed, hoping that heaven might grant his weary soul rest.”
Examples
simple
“May his kind soul rest in peace.”
contextual
“We gathered at the cemetery to honor her memory and pray for her soul to rest.”
complex
“As the final notes of the funeral hymn faded, the mourners whispered a collective prayer for the departed, hoping that heaven might grant his weary soul rest.”
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