inhume
verb (used with object)
to bury; inter.
inhumation
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a word derived from
inhume.
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
It is the general opinion, that during this period the practice of inhumation, or simple burial, was commoner than that of cremation or burning, though each method was adopted.
From The Ethnology of the British Islands by R. G. (Robert Gordon) Latham
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 F. (Francis) Haverfield
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
With the above brief references to inhumation, let us leave the subject.
From Life on the Mississippi, Part 9. by Mark Twain
