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Webster 1913 Edition
Immolation
Imˊmo-la′tion
,Noun.
[L.
immolatio
: cf. F. immolation
.] 1.
The act of immolating, or the state of being immolated, or sacrificed.
Sir. T. Browne.
2.
That which is immolated; a sacrifice.
Webster 1828 Edition
Immolation
IMMOLA'TION
,Noun.
1.
A sacrifice offered.Definition 2024
immolation
immolation
English
Noun
immolation (plural immolations)
- The act of immolating, or the state of being immolated, or sacrificed.
- 1918, W. B. Maxwell, chapter 16, in The Mirror and the Lamp:
- The preposterous altruism too! […] Resist not evil. It is an insane immolation of self—as bad intrinsically as fakirs stabbing themselves or anchorites warping their spines in caves scarcely large enough for a fair-sized dog.
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- That which is immolated; a sacrifice.
Translations
act of immolating
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that which is immolated