dormition
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Middle French dormition, from Latin dormītiōnem.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
dormition (countable and uncountable, 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, published 2010, page 507:
- The Virgin had allegedly given away her robe just before her death – what is in Eastern tradition called her Dormition, or falling asleep.
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Translations[edit]
falling asleep
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the process of death
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the actual death
the death and assumption of the Virgin Mary
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French[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
dormition f (plural dormitions)
Further reading[edit]
- “dormition”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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