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Entombment   /ɪntˈummənt/   Listen
Entombment

noun
1.
The ritual placing of a corpse in a grave.  Synonyms: burial, inhumation, interment, sepulture.






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"Entombment" Quotes from Famous Books



... Siberia vegetable food was found, probably tropical, at all events unknown to the botany of to-day. The foregoing facts seem to be at variance with the doctrine of Uniformity, or with anything like a slow process. The entombment of these animals must have been very sudden, and due, one would naturally think, to a tremendous cataclysm followed by immediate freezing, else their flesh would have become tainted. A recent English writer ...
— Through the Mackenzie Basin - A Narrative of the Athabasca and Peace River Treaty Expedition of 1899 • Charles Mair



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