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sepulture
[ sep-uhl-cher ]
noun
- the act of placing in a sepulcher or tomb; burial.
- sepulcher; tomb.
sepulture
/ ˈsɛpəltʃə /
noun
- the act of placing in a sepulchre
- an archaic word for sepulchre
Other Words From
- se·pul·tur·al [s, uh, -, puhl, -cher-, uh, l], adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of sepulture1
Word History and Origins
Origin of sepulture1
Example Sentences
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.
In the matter of royal sepulture, it is certain that the whale had an immense advantage.
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?
Moreover, from the date of the peace of Paris until the end of his life he earnestly and vainly endeavored to obtain from Rome permission for the sepulture of his father’s body.
The parish churches at last came to claim the bodies of their parishioners as a matter of right, and to deny to the dying the privilege of electing a place of sepulture.
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