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Exhumation   Listen
noun
Exhumation  n.  The act of exhuming that which has been buried; as, the exhumation of a body.






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"Exhumation" Quotes from Famous Books



... century, had disappeared late in the eighteenth, from its demolition in fragments to avert shipwreck." And so what has been consecrated, must not be desecrated. In Leicestershire and Northamptonshire there is a superstitious idea that the removal or exhumation of a body after interment bodes death or some terrible calamity to the surviving members of ...
— Folklore as an Historical Science • George Laurence Gomme



Words linked to "Exhumation" :   digging up, deed, act



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