immolation

English

Etymology

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

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• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

immolation (countable and uncountable, plural immolations)

1. The act of immolating, or the state of being immolated, or sacrificed.
   • 1842, [anonymous collaborator of Letitia Elizabeth Landon], 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[illiam] B[abington] 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.

Derived terms

• self-immolation
• twimmolation

Related terms

• immolate

Translations

act of immolating

Bulgarian: жертвоприношение n (žertvoprinošenie) Catalan: immolació f Chinese: Mandarin: 獻祭 / 献祭 (zh) (xiànjì), 供物 (zh) (gōngwù) Esperanto: please add this translation if you can Finnish: uhraus (fi) French: immolation (fr) f Galician: inmolación (gl) f German: Aufopferung (de) f Portuguese: imolação f Russian: жертвоприноше́ние (ru) n (žertvoprinošénije) Serbo-Croatian: prinošenje žrtve, imolacija f Spanish: inmolación (es) f Tibetan: དམར་མཆོད (dmar mchod) Ukrainian: жертвоприно́шення n (žertvoprynóšennja) Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can

that which is immolated

Bulgarian: жертвено животно (žertveno životno) Finnish: uhri (fi) German: Opfer (de) f Portuguese: imolado (pt) m Russian: же́ртва (ru) f (žértva) Serbo-Croatian: žrtva (sh) f Ukrainian: же́ртва f (žértva)

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin immolātiōnem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /i.mɔ.la.sjɔ̃/

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Noun

immolation f (plural immolations)

1. immolation

Related terms

• immoler

Further reading

• “immolation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.