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

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 difficulties of inhumation are capable of such variety as causes us already to foresee that the Necrophorus cannot employ fixed methods in performing his task.

From The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles by Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander

A living inhumation, where the body exists but as the spirit's sepulchre!

From Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 by Roby, John

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