immolation

From Middle English immolacion, from Middle French immolation, from Old French, from Latin immolatio.

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• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

immolation (countable and uncountable, plural immolations)

1. The act of immolating, or the state of being immolated, or sacrificed.
   • 1842, , chapter XXVIII, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. , volume II, London: Henry Colburn, , →OCLC, page 66:

     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.

   • 1918, W B Maxwell, chapter XVI, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:

     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.

• immolate

Borrowed from Latin immolātiōnem.

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immolation f (plural immolations)

1. immolation

• immoler

• “immolation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.