жертвоприноше́ние — meaning in English
zhertvoprinosheniye
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English meaning
- immolation noun The act of offering someone or something as a sacrifice, or the condition of having been so sacrificed.
- 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
- noun The act of offering someone or something as a sacrifice, or the condition of having been so sacrificed.
- noun A person, animal or thing offered up and killed in this way.
- noun The act of setting fire to a person on purpose, to harm or kill them.
sacrifice — full definition
- verb To offer something, historically an animal, person, or object, to a deity as an act of worship.
- verb To give up something valuable for the sake of something considered more important.
- noun The act of giving up something valuable for a greater cause, or the thing given up.
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