Why this word is great
CHANTRY — [Noun] An endowment for the maintenance of a priest to sing daily masses for the souls of specified individuals, or the chapel established for this purpose. From Middle English chaunterie, Old French chanterie, from chanter ("to sing"). Unlike "chapel" (a general place of worship) or "endowment" (a secular bequest), a chantry is a contract with eternity—a sung bargain between the living and the dead. It is the cold stone niche where a single candle gutters beside a ledger of names, the priest’s murmured Latin rising like incense into vaulted shadows, the quiet certainty that someone, centuries hence, will still speak your name aloud—a fragile bulwark against oblivion.