Crossword-Solution: SACRIFICE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Sacrifice | n. | The offering of anything to God, or to a god; consecratory rite. |
| Sacrifice | n. | Anything consecrated and offered to God, or to a divinity; an immolated victim, or an offering of any kind, laid upon an altar, or otherwise presented in the way of religious thanksgiving, atonement, or conciliation. |
| Sacrifice | n. | Destruction or surrender of anything for the sake of something else; devotion of some desirable object in behalf of a higher object, or to a claim deemed more pressing; hence, also, the thing so devoted or given up; as, the sacrifice of interest to pleasure, or of pleasure to interest. |
| Sacrifice | n. | A sale at a price less than the cost or the actual value. |
| Sacrifice | n. | To make an offering of; to consecrate or present to a divinity by way of expiation or propitiation, or as a token acknowledgment or thanksgiving; to immolate on the altar of God, in order to atone for sin, to procure favor, or to express thankfulness; as, to sacrifice an ox or a sheep. |
| Sacrifice | n. | Hence, to destroy, surrender, or suffer to be lost, for the sake of obtaining something; to give up in favor of a higher or more imperative object or duty; to devote, with loss or suffering. |
| Sacrifice | n. | To destroy; to kill. |
| Sacrifice | n. | To sell at a price less than the cost or the actual value. |
| Sacrifice | v. i. | To make offerings to God, or to a deity, of things consumed on the altar; to offer sacrifice. |
We have 25 clues for the answer “SACRIFICE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| giving up something valuable | 1 answer |
| Sell for a song | 1 answer |
| Offering, sometimes | 1 answer |
| OFFERING of a victim to a deity | 1 answer |
| LIBATION accompaniment | 1 answer |
| Offering to a deity. | 2 answers |
| Burnt offering? | 2 answers |
| GIVING up of things | 3 answers |
| LEVITICUS, subject of | 4 answers |
| immolate | 5 answers |
| ABSTEMIOUSNESS | 5 answers |
| Oblation | 6 answers |
| Baseball ploy | 7 answers |
| Unselfishness | 8 answers |
| ABNEGATION | 11 answers |
| hecatomb | 12 answers |
| Immolation | 15 answers |
| See note | 38 answers |
| sobriety | 46 answers |
| Offering | 51 answers |
| Victim | 52 answers |
| Offer | 53 answers |
| Kill | 61 answers |
| Forfeit | 65 answers |
| Give ___ up | 78 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EATRE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with SACRIFICE (5)
First _Moloch_, horrid King besmear’d with blood Of human sacrifice, and parents tears, Though for the noyse of Drums and Timbrels loud Their childrens cries unheard, that past through fire To his grim Idol.
After a long and fruitless search, he made a vow that, if he could only discover the thief who had stolen the Calf, he would offer a lamb in sacrifice to Hermes, Pan, and the Guardian Deities of the forest.
Let no man in this land, whereof I hold The sovereign rule, harbor or speak to him; Give him no part in prayer or sacrifice Or lustral rites, but hound him from your homes.
But it is an error to suppose that our great forefathers—though accustomed to speak and think of human existence as a state merely of trial and warfare, and though unfeignedly prepared to sacrifice goods and life at the behest of duty—made it a matter of conscience to reject such means of comfort, or even luxury, as lay fairly within their grasp.
More broadly applied to talks --- even when the topic is not a programming language --- in which the subject matter is gone into in unnecessary and meticulous detail at the sacrifice of any conceptual content.
Quotes with SACRIFICE (3)
The really important kind of freedom involves attention, and awareness, and discipline, and effort, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them, over and over, in myriad petty little unsexy ways, every day.
Don’t sacrifice yourself too much, because if you sacrifice too much there’s nothing else you can give and nobody will care for you.
Life is funny. Things change, people change, but you will always be you, so stay true to yourself and never sacrifice who you are for anyone.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Newsday.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (2004).