interment
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Origin of interment
1300–50; inter + -ment; replacing Middle English enter ( e ) ment < Middle French enterrement
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Explanation
Interment is the placing of a corpse in a grave. If a loved one dies, you need to make arrangements for the interment so that people can bid the deceased farewell. Interment comes from root words meaning "to place inside," and in this case it's the placing of someone inside the earth, for burial. The Egyptian Pyramids are landmarks of very extravagant interment. At the Chinese Emperor Qin's interment, he had an army of warriors made out of terra cotta buried with him, in case he needed to fight in the afterlife.
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Interment is to follow at Forrest Hills Cemetery in northeast Philadelphia.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 24, 2023
Interment marked by some ritual can provide this needed closure.
From Washington Post • Oct. 9, 2022
"Interment at Omaha National Cemetery on Tuesday, Nov. 27 at 2 pm."
From Fox News • Nov. 27, 2018
Interment inside Westminster Abbey is a rarely bestowed honor.
From Reuters • Mar. 20, 2018
I thought of sorrow in the wilderness, And death in solitude, and pitiless Interment in the tiger's hideous maw: I pray'd, and, praying, turn'd from all I saw; My prayers were curses!
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 541, April 7, 1832 by Various
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