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hecatomb
A sacrifice to the ancient Greek or Roman gods consisting originally of 100 oxen or cattle.
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  1. A sacrifice to the ancient Greek or Roman gods consisting originally of 100 oxen or cattle.
  2. In ancient Greece, any great sacrifice to the gods; specif., the slaughter of one hundred cattle at one time
  3. Any large-scale sacrifice or slaughter
offering
A contribution or gift, especially one made at a religious service.
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  1. A contribution or gift, especially one made at a religious service.
  2. The act of making an offer
  3. That which has been offered; a sacrifice.
sacrifice
The act of offering something to a deity in propitiation or homage, especially the ritual slaughter of an animal or a person.
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  1. The act of offering something to a deity in propitiation or homage, especially the ritual slaughter of an animal or a person.
  2. The act of offering the life of a person or animal, or some object, in propitiation of or homage to a deity
  3. (Baseball) A sacrifice bunt or sacrifice fly
victim
One who is harmed or killed by another, especially by someone committing a criminal or unlawful act:
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  1. One who is harmed or killed by another, especially by someone committing a criminal or unlawful act:
  2. A person or animal killed as a sacrifice to a god in a religious rite
  3. A living creature slain and offered as a sacrifice during a religious rite.
Find another word for immolation. In this page you can discover 5 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for immolation, like: hecatomb, offering, sacrifice, victim and religion.

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  • are of too late date by themselves to prove the immolation of children to Moloch in old Israel.

  • European research has clearly proved that the text in the Vedas adduced to authorize the immolation of widows was a wilful mistranslation.

  • Some of its enactments are purely pagan - thus one paragraph allows the mother to kill her new-born child, and another prescribes the immolation to the gods of the defiler of their temple; others are purely Christian, such as those which prohibit incestuous marriages and working on Sunday.

  • It is not merely that in its first establishment slavery was an immense advance by substituting for the immolation of captives, often accompanied by cannibalism, their occupation in labour for the benefit of the victor.

  • "immolate," "immolation."

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