Immolation Definition

noun

The act of immolating, or the state of being immolated, or sacrificed.

Wiktionary

That which is immolated; a sacrifice.

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Other Word Forms of Immolation

Noun

Singular:
immolation
Plural:
immolations

Origin of Immolation

  • From Middle French immolation, from Old French, from Latin immolatio

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Immolation Sentence Examples

  • Some of its enactments are purely pagan - thus one paragraph allows the mother to kill her new-born child, and another prescribes the immolation to the gods of the defiler of their temple; others are purely Christian, such as those which prohibit incestuous marriages and working on Sunday.

  • European research has clearly proved that the text in the Vedas adduced to authorize the immolation of widows was a wilful mistranslation.

  • It is not merely that in its first establishment slavery was an immense advance by substituting for the immolation of captives, often accompanied by cannibalism, their occupation in labour for the benefit of the victor.

  • Was ever an immolation so belied As these intolerably nameless names?

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Words Starting With

IIMIMM

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NONION

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Words Starting With I and Ending With N

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