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Hoping that she can learn the Fireman's secret to Dragonscale before she immolates or has her baby, Harper sets out into the New England forest with her rescuer.

From Los Angeles Times • May 13, 2016

Immolā′tion, act of immolating: a sacrifice; Imm′olator, one who immolates or offers sacrifice.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various

Behold how she immolates herself upon the altar of friendship!

From Beatrice Leigh at College A Story for Girls by Schwartz, Julia Augusta

While Kriemhilde's fierce hatred immolates both herself and a great dynasty on the altar of revenge, in Gudrun we celebrate the victory of self-abnegation, patience, and peace, and the reconciliation of two mighty dynasties.

From Women of the Teutonic Nations Woman: In all ages and in all countries Vol. 8 (of 10) by Schoenfeld, Hermann

There is no dramatic logic whatever in the recurrence of this theme to express the transport in which Brynhild immolates herself.

From The Perfect Wagnerite, Commentary on the Ring by Shaw, Bernard