inhumation

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But it is Mr. Blair’s account of several millennia of inhumation and exhumation, rather than several centuries of fiction writing, that raises the most significant questions.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 21, 2025

The difficulties of inhumation are capable of such variety as causes us already to foresee that the Necrophorus cannot employ fixed methods in performing his task.

From The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles by Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander

A living inhumation, where the body exists but as the spirit's sepulchre!

From Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 by Roby, John

Among the aboriginal Britons the custom of simple inhumation was probably prevalent, but there are not wanting evidences in support of the belief that cremation also was sometimes practised in prehistoric times.

From In Search of Gravestones Old and Curious by Vincent, W.T. (William Thomas)

Save for a few first-century remains in one corner, the graveyard seems to be an inhumation cemetery, used during the second half of the second century—rather an early date for such a cemetery.

From Roman Britain in 1914 by Haverfield, F. (Francis)