inhumation
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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
Skeletons are sometimes found, in tolerably perfect condition, after an inhumation of two hundred years.
From Dealings with the Dead, Volume I (of 2) by A Sexton of the Old School
The casting a handful of soil on the coffin is emblematic of the complete inhumation.
From Notes and Queries, Vol. III, Number 86, June 21, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Geneologists, etc. by Various
At supper, after the inhumation, a mutual esteem had sprung up that rapidly ripened into love.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-01-21 by Various
The vessels were not to any extent cinerary, and probably not even mortuary in the sense of having been constructed especially for inhumation with the dead.
From Ancient Pottery of the Mississippi Valley Fourth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1882-83, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1886, pages 361-436 by William Henry Holmes
