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funeration

funeration noun: the act of burying with funeral rites.

Noun

funeration (usually uncountable, plural funerations)

  1. (obsolete, usually) the act of burying with funeral rites
    • For in the Rites of funeration they did use to anoint the dead body, with Aromatick Spices and Oyntments, before they buried them.1693, Sir Norman Knatchbull, Annotations upon some difficult texts in all the books of the New Testament

Forms of funeration

pluralfunerations

Origin of funeration

From Latin fūnerātiō, from fūnerātus, past participle of fūnerō (“to funerate”), from fūnus, fūneris (“funeral”).

Questions about funeration

What does funeration mean?
Funeration means the act of burying with funeral rites.
What part of speech is funeration?
Funeration is a noun.
What is the plural of funeration?
The plural of funeration is funerations.

Words near funeration in the dictionary

  1. funerary
  2. funerate
  3. funerated
  4. funerates
  5. funerating
  6. funeration
  7. funerations
  8. funereal
  9. funereally
  10. funerial
  11. Funes

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