burnt offering

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The ancient Greek term from which Holocaust arose meant a burnt offering; then, in early modern Europe, a holocaust was the death of humans by fire; then, by the 19th century, it came to mean a cataclysm generally; then, by the late 20th, the mass murder of the European Jews.

From Slate

In the end, the burnt offering of a staffer’s character is not enough.

From Washington Post

Someone should give Zeus a burnt offering.

From New York Times

I recently learned that the Latin word “holocaustum” means a “burnt offering to the gods.”

From New York Times

But this novel is not simply a burnt offering, a Baedeker of dread and decay.

From New York Times