immolate
verb (used with object)
to sacrifice.
had immolated
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past perfectof immolate.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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That still so noble and imposing figure, ravaged by pain, pleaded in his heart the cause of the famous queen who had immolated a child to reasons of state.
From The Man in the Iron Mask by Alexandre Dumas père
The fates had immolated the helpless; were the fates preparing a still bitterer expiation?
From The Iron Game A Tale of the War by Henry F. (Henry Francis) Keenan
Still, martyr though I was, the knowledge that I had immolated myself upon the altar of friendship filled me with a sense of conscious virtue that I found not ill-pleasing.
From My Lady Caprice by Jeffery Farnol
But it was the looking at this self-drawn picture which first softened the artist's heart towards the victim whom he had immolated on his imaginary canvas.
From The Belton Estate by Anthony Trollope
He had won all along the line; and Aletta had immolated herself all to no purpose.
From Aletta A Tale of the Boer Invasion by Bertram Mitford
