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immolate
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Definition:to sacrifice by fire; to destroy
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She emptied her blackened pieces into the flames, and motioned me to finish the immolation.
Emily Brontë. Wuthering Heights (1847)
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They think that I killed my wife on the 5th of October. It was long before that that I immolated her, just as they all kill now.
Leo Tolstoy. The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories
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She'd wake up if the cat sneezed, she said, but then she'd sleep through the immolation of an entire Sunday dinner two feet away from her.
Marilynne Robinson. Gilead, p.76 (2004)
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He started off in praise of virtue, duty, and silent immolation, having himself an incredible longing for self-sacrifice that he could not satisfy.
Gustave Flaubert. Madame Bovary
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