Crossword-Solution: IMMOLATION
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Immolation | n. | The act of immolating, or the state of being immolated, or sacrificed. |
| Immolation | n. | That which is immolated; a sacrifice. |
We have 24 clues for the answer “IMMOLATION”
| Clue | Answers |
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| the act of immolating, or the state of being immolated, or sacrificed | 1 answer |
| high casualties | 1 answer |
| Brünnehilde's scene. | 1 answer |
| capital murder | 3 answers |
| suttee | 4 answers |
| DESTRUCTION of life | 4 answers |
| suicide | 5 answers |
| BOTTOM dog | 12 answers |
| hecatomb | 12 answers |
| Underdog | 13 answers |
| CAPITAL punishment | 15 answers |
| extermination | 19 answers |
| Quarry | 22 answers |
| Easy mark | 23 answers |
| execution | 23 answers |
| Sacrifice | 29 answers |
| Prey | 33 answers |
| butchery | 37 answers |
| casualty | 46 answers |
| Offering | 51 answers |
| Victim | 52 answers |
| Butt | 54 answers |
| Dupe | 75 answers |
| _____ fool | 110 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with IMMOLATION (5)
Her big brown eyes were watching him, still and resigned and loving; she lay as if she had given herself up to sacrifice: there was her body for him; but the look at the back of her eyes, like a creature awaiting immolation, arrested him, and all his blood fell back.
The very immolation made the bliss; death was the heart of life, and all the harm my folly had crouched to avoid, now proved a veil hiding all gain my wisdom strove to grasp.
Exhausted he was, nerveless, weak, but this apathy was still invaded from time to time with fierce incursions of a spirit of unrest and revolt, reactions, momentary returns of the blind, undirected energy that at one time had prompted him to a vast desire to acquit himself of some terrible deed of readjustment, just what, he could not say, some terrifying martyrdom, some awe-inspiring immolation, consummate, incisive, conclusive.
One explanation, only, occurs to me, which is that among New England people, largely descended from Puritan stock, there still lingers some blind impulse at self-mortification, an hereditary inclination to make this life as disagreeable as possible by self-immolation.
These fundamental inner conditions have characteristic practical consequences, as follows:— _a._ _Asceticism._—The self‐surrender may become so passionate as to turn into self‐immolation.
Quotes with IMMOLATION (3)
It's just me throwing myself at you, romance as usual, us times us, not lust but moxibustion, a substance burning closeto the body as possiblewithout risk of immolation.
In the end Navidson is left with one page and one match. For a long time he waits in darkness and cold, postponing this final bit of illumination. At last though, he grips the match by the neck and after locating the friction strip sparks to life a final ball of light. First, he reads a few lines by match light and then as the heat bites his fingertips he applies the flame to the page. Here then is one end: a final act of reading, a final act of consumption. And as the fire r…
Better a fallen rocket than never a burst of light. Dante reserved a place in his Inferno for those who wilfully live in sadness - sullen in the sweet air, he says. Your 'honour' is all shame and timidity and compliance. Pure of stain! But the artist is the secret criminal in our midst. He is the agent of progress against authority. you are right to be a scholar. A scholar is all scruple, an artist is none. The artist must lie, cheat, deceive, be untrue to nature and contempt…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1963).