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commit suicide by burning as a protest or sacrificeor:
offer as a sacrifice by killing or by giving up to destruction
- The monk self-immolated in protest against China's rule of Tibet.
immolated = committed suicide by burning
- The Aztecs immolated human victims
- immolate the valuables at the temple
- People sitting on the sidewalk in the dawn half immolate and smoking in their clothes. Like failed sectarian suicides.Cormac McCarthy -- The Road
- I continued, as was my wont, to smile in his face, and he did not perceive that my smile now was at the thought of his immolation.Edgar Allan Poe -- The Cask of Amontillado
- When it was added that man must find joy in self-immolation, the trap was closed.Ayn Rand -- The Fountainhead
- Or, according to another tradition, at the shore he immolated himself upon a funeral pyre, and birds with multi-colored feathers arose from his ashes.Joseph Campbell -- The Hero With a Thousand Faces
- I think I'd prefer self-immolation, on a stage perhaps, with all my paintings.Christina Garcia -- Dreaming in Cuban
- It leads him to a strange habitation, to a secret infidel apartment, and there, implacable, immolates him, consenting.James Joyce -- Ulysses
- A week after Louie had left Omori, sixteen square miles of Tokyo, and tens of thousands of souls, had been immolated by B-29s.Laura Hillenbrand -- Unbroken
- Though he was totally immolated, the drow barely felt warmed by the fire.R.A. Salvatore -- The Crystal Shard
- She emptied her blackened pieces into the flames, and motioned me to finish the immolation.Emily Bronte -- Wuthering Heights
- He started off in praise of virtue, duty, and silent immolation, having himself an incredible longing for self-sacrifice that he could not satisfy.Gustave Flaubert -- Madame Bovary
- With a sweep of his cane, the demon destroyed the flowers in an immolation of golden flames.Henry H. Neff -- The Fiend And The Forge
- Malcolm Browne, the AP Saigon bureau chief, was one of the few journalists to witness the immolation of Thich Quang Duc.Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard -- Killing Kennedy
- This pilot immolated himself against the USS Bismarck Sea, adjacent to the Lawrence Taylor.James Bradley -- Flags of Our Fathers
- "Self-immolate," Colin corrected, and then pulled the door shut.John Green -- An Abundance of Katherines
- That was now done, and she had not the power to attempt self-immolation a second time then.Thomas Hardy -- Tess of the d'Urbervilles
- A spiritual privacy so long intact that its own instinct for preservation had immolated it, its physical phase the strength and fortitude of a man.William Faulkner -- Light in August
- ' The priests concluded that Mr Fukai had run back to immolate himself in the flames.John Hersey -- Hiroshima
immolate = burned as a sacrifice
immolation = burning
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