They have erected a monument in his honor. the Quakers disapproved of monuments, regarding them as idolatrous, so thousands of Nantucketers spend their eternal rest in complete anonymity
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Word History
Etymology
Middle English, from Anglo-French, from Latin monumentum, literally, memorial, from monēre to remind — more at mind