entombment
pronunciation
How to pronounce entombment in British English:
UK [en'tu:mmənt]
How to pronounce entombment in American English:
US [en'tummənt]
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- Noun:
- the ritual placing of a corpse in a grave
Word Origin
- entombment (n.)
- 1660s, from entomb + -ment.
Example
- 1. Indeed , the rapid entombment may have preserved some of the skin itself , on top of the boy 's skull and on the woman 's jaw near the chin-something never before seen in a hominin fossil .
- 2. Since 1633 the imperial crypt in vienna has been the principal place of entombment for the habsburg dynasty , hereditary emperors of the holy roman empire , and their descendants .
- 3. However , the women who had witnessed the entombment and the closure of the tomb with a great stone , found it empty when they arrived on the third day to anoint the body .
- 4. Pythagoras believed the souls of poets passed into swans , a fitting entombment that turns the tattered phrase " poetry in motion " into a truly lyrical trope .