inhumation
Example Sentences
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But it is Mr. Blair’s account of several millennia of inhumation and exhumation, rather than several centuries of fiction writing, that raises the most significant questions.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 21, 2025
He identified the change from 57cremation to inhumation with that from heathenism to Christianity.
From Anglo-Saxon Literature by Earle, John
Funeral Rites.—Both inhumation and cremation were practised in heathen times.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" by Various
The inhumation was effected at night by the widow alone.
From The Zincali: an account of the gypsies of Spain by Borrow, George Henry
The ancients held hasty inhumation in great dread, and grounded their apprehension on various current traditions.
From Curiosities of Medical Experience by Millingen, J. G. (John Gideon)
