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dormition
dormition
English
Noun
dormition (plural dormitions)
- The process of falling asleep.
- (euphemistic) The process of death or the actual death itself.
- (Eastern Orthodoxy, often capitalized) The death and assumption into heaven of the Virgin Mary.
- 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin 2010, p. 507:
- The Virgin had allegedly given away her robe just before her death – what is in Eastern tradition called her Dormition, or falling asleep.
- 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin 2010, p. 507:
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the process of death
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the death and assumption of the Virgin Mary
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