Immolation
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Immolation is a noun meaning The act of immolating, or the state of being immolated.
Meaning
The act of immolating, or the state of being immolated.
More Meanings
- That which is immolated; a sacrifice.
- The act of maliciously burning a person.
Example Sentences
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.
Mary heard with sorrow, and fear also, of the projected journey; but the altered expression of Isabella's countenance was a great palliative—dreadful as it was that her husband should love another (and of that distressing fact it was impossible to doubt), his confidence was consoling; and her power to prove the firmness of her character, her right to his esteem, and the immolation of her happiness to further his desires, had, in itself, the sustainment which belongs to great sacrifice.
Word Forms
- immolations
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include self-immolation, martyrism, implosion, infliction, impaling, self-sacrifice.
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