immolation

The act of immolating, or the state of being immolated.

Noun

  1. 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...
  2. That which is immolated; a sacrifice.
  3. The act of maliciously burning a person.

Origin

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

Forms

immolations

Related

immolate

Derived

self-immolation twimmolation