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 the general opinion, that during this period the practice of inhumation, or simple burial, was commoner than that of cremation or burning, though each method was adopted.
From The Ethnology of the British Islands by Latham, R. G. (Robert Gordon)
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 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)
A living inhumation, where the body exists but as the spirit's sepulchre!
From Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 by Roby, John
