immolation
The act of immolating, or the state of being immolated.
Noun
- The act of immolating, or the state of being immolated.
- 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...
- 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...
- That which is immolated; a sacrifice.
- The act of maliciously burning a person.
Origin
From Middle English immolacion, from Middle French immolation, from Old French, from Latin immolatio.