immolation
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French immolation, from Old French, from Latin immolatio.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -eɪʃən
Noun
immolation (countable and uncountable, 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.
- That which is immolated; a sacrifice.
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Translations
act of immolating
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that which is immolated
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French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin immolatio, immolationem.
Pronunciation
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Noun
immolation f (plural immolations)
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