sepulture
Americannoun
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the act of placing in a sepulcher or tomb; burial.
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sepulcher; tomb.
noun
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the act of placing in a sepulchre
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an archaic word for sepulchre
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of sepulture
1250–1300; Middle English < Old French < Latin sepultūra, equivalent to sepult ( us ) (past participle of sepelīre to bury) + -ūra -ure
Example Sentences
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Might he not have risen in wrath out of his sarcophagus to see these frivolous moderns thus making merry in the place of his sepulture?
From From Egypt to Japan by Field, Henry M. (Henry Martyn)
In the matter of royal sepulture, it is certain that the whale had an immense advantage.
From A Breeze from the Woods, 2nd Ed. by Bartlett, William Chauncey
Occasionally, when the site of a graveyard has become known to others than these local Ainu, the place is deserted, and a fresh place of sepulture is chosen.
From Alone with the Hairy Ainu or, 3,800 miles on a pack saddle in Yezo and a cruise to the Kurile Islands. by Landor, A. H. Savage
After his death he was laid to rest in the Pantheon set aside by the Poles for the sepulture of their literary celebrities.
From The Countess Cosel A Romance of History of the Times of Augustus the Strong by Kraszewski, Jo?zef Ignacy
Sir Walter Scott, who has made “Old Mortality” the subject of a novel, intended to rear a tombstone to his memory, but was unable to discover his place of sepulture.
From Curious Epitaphs by Various
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