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English
Etymology
From inhume + -ation.
Pronunciation
Noun
inhumation (countable and uncountable, plural inhumations)
- The act of burial.
1885 March 18, “Cremation or Burial”, in New York Times, retrieved 10 September 2010:"Cremation versus Inhumation" was the subject considered at the meeting of the Nineteenth Century Club at the residence of Mr. Courtlandt Palmer, No. 117 East One Hundred and Seventeenth-street, last evening.
2010 March 10, Eti Bonn-Muller, “Dynasty of Priestesses”, in archaeology.org, retrieved 10 September 2010:Stampolidis's team has unearthed three types of Iron Age burials at Orthi Petra . . . dating from the ninth to the seventh century B.C.: pithos (large ceramic jar) burials, cremations, and basic inhumations.
- The act of burying vessels in warm earth in order to expose their contents to a steady moderate heat; the state of being thus exposed.
- (medicine) Arenation.
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French
Etymology
From inhumer + -ation.
Pronunciation
Noun
inhumation f (plural inhumations)
- inhumation
- Synonym: mise en terre
- Coordinate term: exhumation
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