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

It is to be feared that this melancholy occurrence is more frequent than is supposed, more especially in countries where inhumation is speedily resorted to.

From Curiosities of Medical Experience by Millingen, J. G. (John Gideon)

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

From Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 by Roby, John

Instances show that the two rites of inhumation and cremation were practised side by side.

From The Bronze Age in Ireland by Coffey, George

They extend their parental supervision even to the family interior, every relation of life regulated by fixed laws, and even after death the inhumation must be conducted the forms and with the precautions prescribed.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 41, March, 1861 by Various