inhumation
Example Sentences
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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
He identified the change from 57cremation to inhumation with that from heathenism to Christianity.
From Anglo-Saxon Literature by John Earle
The last occupant was said to have departed this life as late as 1835, adding, by the comparative newness of his inhumation, to the horrors of the scene.
From Notes of an Overland Journey Through France and Egypt to Bombay by Miss Emma Roberts
With the tribes living far towards the northern lakes, the ceremonies and superstitions which formerly preceded inhumation, were these:—Charlevoix, the best writer that ever treated of the Indians, is my authority.
From Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 1 by James Athearn Jones
The commonest method was some form of inhumation in pits, graves, or holes in the ground, in stone graves or cysts, in mounds, beneath or in houses, or in caves.
From Lippincott's Magazine, November 1885 by Various
