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From inhume +‎ -ation.

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  • IPA(key): /ɪn.hjuːˈmeɪ.ʃən/

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inhumation (countable and uncountable, plural inhumations)

  1. The act of burial.
    • 1885 March 18, “Cremation or Burial”, in New York Times, retrieved 10 September 2010:
      "Cremation versus Inhumation" was the subject considered at the meeting of the Nineteenth Century Club at the residence of Mr. Courtlandt Palmer, No. 117 East One Hundred and Seventeenth-street, last evening.
    • 2010 March 10, Eti Bonn-Muller, “Dynasty of Priestesses”, in archaeology.org, retrieved 10 September 2010:
      Stampolidis's team has unearthed three types of Iron Age burials at Orthi Petra . . . dating from the ninth to the seventh century B.C.: pithos (large ceramic jar) burials, cremations, and basic inhumations.
  2. The act of burying vessels in warm earth in order to expose their contents to a steady moderate heat; the state of being thus exposed.
  3. (medicine) Arenation.

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French

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Etymology

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From inhumer +‎ -ation.

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  • IPA(key): /i.ny.ma.sjɔ̃/
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inhumation f (plural inhumations)

  1. inhumation
    Synonym: mise en terre
    Coordinate term: exhumation

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