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burnt offering
noun
- an offering burnt upon an altar in sacrifice to a deity.
burnt offering
noun
- a sacrificial offering burnt, usually on an altar, to honour, propitiate, or supplicate a deity
Word History and Origins
Origin of burnt offering1
Example Sentences
The faithful smoke it as a sacrament in chalice pipes or cigarettes called “spliffs,” add it to plant-based organic stews and place it in fires as a burnt offering.
The faithful smoke it as a sacrament in chalice pipes or cigarettes called “spliffs,” add it to plant-based organic stews and place it in fires as a burnt offering.
The faithful smoke it as a sacrament in chalice pipes or cigarettes called “spliffs,” add it to vegetarian stews and place it in fires as a burnt offering.
In the superb season finale, Kendall is like a burnt offering kindling an unexpected sea of flames.
The ancient Greek term from which Holocaust arose meant a burnt offering; then, in early modern Europe, a holocaust was the death of humans by fire; then, by the 19th century, it came to mean a cataclysm generally; then, by the late 20th, the mass murder of the European Jews.
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