immolation

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French immolation, from Old French, from Latin immolatio.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

immolation (countable and uncountable, plural immolations)

1. 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.

2. That which is immolated; a sacrifice.

Related terms

• immolate

Translations

act of immolating

• Bulgarian: жертвоприношение n (žertvoprinošenie)
• Catalan: immolació f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 獻祭／献祭 (zh) (xiànjì), 献祭 (zh) (xiànjì), 供物 (zh) (gōngwù)

• Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: uhraus (fi)
• French: immolation (fr) f
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• Galician: inmolación (gl) f
• Portuguese: imolação f
• Russian: жертвоприноше́ние (ru) n (žertvoprinošénije)
• Spanish: inmolación (es) f
• Tibetan: དམར་མཆོད (dmar mchod)
• Ukrainian: жертвоприно́шення n (žertvoprynóšennja)
• Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can

that which is immolated

• Bulgarian: жертвено животно (žertveno životno)
• Finnish: uhri (fi)
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• Russian: же́ртва (ru) f (žértva)
• Ukrainian: же́ртва f (žértva)

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French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin immolatio, immolationem.

Pronunciation

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Noun

immolation f (plural immolations)

1. immolation

Related terms

• immoler