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жертвоприноше́ние — meaning in English

zhertvoprinosheniye

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English meaning

  • immolation noun The act of immolating, or the state of being immolated.
  • sacrifice verb To offer something, historically an animal, person, or object, to a deity as an act of worship.

Senses

жертвоприноше́ние is used for these senses in English:

  • immolation The act of immolating, or the state of being immolated, or sacrificed.
  • sacrifice Originally, the killing (and often burning) of a human being or an animal as an offering to a deity; later, also the offering of an object to a deity.

immolation — full definition

  1. noun The act of immolating, or the state of being immolated.
  2. noun That which is immolated; a sacrifice.
  3. noun The act of maliciously burning a person.

sacrifice — full definition

  1. verb To offer something, historically an animal, person, or object, to a deity as an act of worship.
  2. verb To give up something valuable for the sake of something considered more important.
  3. noun The act of giving up something valuable for a greater cause, or the thing given up.

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