Interment definition

ĭn-tûrmənt
interments
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The act or ritual of interring or burying.
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The act of interring; burial.
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The definition of an interment is a burial.

An example of an interment is the burial of a person after a funeral mass.

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The act of burying a dead body; burial.
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Noun

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interment
Plural:
interments

Origin of interment

  • Noun form of inter

    From Wiktionary

Interment Sentence Examples

  • In 1667, the oration at the interment was forbidden by royal order.

  • The mode of interment, however, is the same as that practised in Rome, and the loculi and arcosolia differ by little in the two.

  • The result was a difficulty as to burial, which was compromised by hurried interment at the abbey of Scellieres in Champagne, anticipating the interdict of the bishop of the diocese by an hour or two.

  • They contain clear indication of the interment of martyrs.

  • During the night following the interment, called the Night of Desolation, or that of Solitude, the soul being believed to remain with the body that one night, fikis are engaged at the house of the deceased to recite various portions of the Koran, and, commonly, to repeat the first clause of the profession of the faith, There is no God but God, three thousand times.

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