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IMMOLATION
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Dictionary entry overview: What does immolation mean?
• IMMOLATION (noun)
The noun IMMOLATION has 1 sense:
1. killing or offering as a sacrifice
Familiarity information: IMMOLATION used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Killing or offering as a sacrifice
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("immolation" is a kind of...):
ritual killing; sacrifice (the act of killing (an animal or person) in order to propitiate a deity)
Derivation:
immolate (offer as a sacrifice by killing or by giving up to destruction)
Context examples
If I had permitted him, I am satisfied that Traddles would have made a perfect savage of himself, and eaten a plateful of raw meat, to express enjoyment of the repast; but I would hear of no such immolation on the altar of friendship, and we had a course of bacon instead; there happening, by good fortune, to be cold bacon in the larder.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
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