immolation

Borrowed from Middle French immolation, from Old French, from Latin immolatio

• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

immolation (countable and uncountable, plural immolations)

1. The act of immolating, or the state of being immolated, or sacrificed.
   • 1918, W. B. Maxwell, chapter 16, in The Mirror and the Lamp:

     The preposterous altruism too! […] Resist not evil. It is an insane immolation of self—as bad intrinsically as fakirs stabbing themselves or anchorites warping their spines in caves scarcely large enough for a fair-sized dog.

2. That which is immolated; a sacrifice.

Borrowed from Latin immolatio, immolationem.

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immolation f (plural immolations)

1. immolation

• immoler