Inhumation

//ɪn.hjuːˈmeɪ.ʃən// noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The act of burial. countable, uncountable

    ""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."

  2. 2
    the ritual placing of a corpse in a grave wordnet
  3. 3
    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. countable, uncountable
  4. 4
    Arenation. countable, uncountable

Synonyms

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burialentombmentintermentburialfuneralsepulture

Example

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""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."

Etymology

From inhume + -ation.

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