sacrifice
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- noun
- /ˈsækrɪfaɪs/
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- People sometimes made a blood sacrifice to express their sorrow when a loved one died.
- human sacrifice
- animal sacrifice
- ritual sacrifice
In in Abrahams time blood sacrifices are normal right?
- In in Abrahams time blood sacrifices are normal right?
- And then I got how human sacrifice could be a thing.
- Everybody makes fun of human sacrifice, but here we are and.
- They were doing, they were doing rituals and sacrifices to the gods.
- There would be an altar, a priest and sacrifice and blood.
- And I would also say of the sacrifice and death.
- You can choose to to dishonor disrespect his sacrifice on the cross.
- First of all, which culture was doing the most sacrifice?
- We know that we know that the priests were priests of of sacrifice, as in the Slavic lands.
- It also ties into early cults that would perform blood sacrifices, things like that.
- Caves, water, the magical forest where Adam made his sacrifice gone.
Examples
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Abraham's willingness to sacrifice his own child because God told him to.
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Often, the operation ends with the sacrifice of an egg, chicken, goat, or ram, for instance.
Academic text (1999) -
And then I got how human sacrifice could be a thing.
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Bring me the first sacrifice.
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That they practiced human sacrifice is beyond doubt.
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Someone immediately proposed the idea of offering the hen as a sacrifice to the gods.
Academic text (2008) -
Since then, the Cardinal had become a living symbol of sacrifice to China's Christians.
Fiction book (1991) -
It is rooted in sacrifice to a deity.
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Oh, gods and goddesses of nature, receive this sacrifice and be appeased.
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In ancient times, priests would perform a sacrifice by offering a goat to the gods during the festival.
Synonyms
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9.9
Killing a person or animal by burning to offer as a sacrifice
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9.7
An event where someone or an animal is put to death during a religious ceremony to please a god
Compounds
- Jargon
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6.7
A caught fly ball that lets a player on base score while it puts the batter out
A Muslim festival when families sacrifice an animal and share meat with the poor
- Offensive
An attack in which a person kills or injures others and also dies, usually using a bomb
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Etymology
Sacrifice as a noun comes from the Latin parts sacer 'holy' and facere 'to make', and it originally named an act that 'made' something holy by offering it to the gods. That is why the noun means the act of killing or giving something in a religious ceremony.