dormitionn.
/dɔːˈmɪʃən/ Sleeping; falling asleep; figurative death (of the righteous).
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hensithOE
qualmOE
bale-sithea1000
endingc1000
fallOE
forthsitheOE
soulingOE
life's endOE
deathOE
hethensithc1200
last end?c1225
forthfarec1275
dying1297
finec1300
partingc1300
endc1305
deceasec1330
departc1330
starving1340
passingc1350
latter enda1382
obita1382
perishingc1384
carrion1387
departing1388
finishmentc1400
trespassement14..
passing forthc1410
sesse1417
cess1419
fininga1425
resolutiona1425
departisona1450
passagea1450
departmentc1450
consummation?a1475
dormition1483
debt to (also of) naturea1513
dissolutionc1522
expirationa1530
funeral?a1534
change1543
departure1558
last change1574
transmigration1576
dissolving1577
shaking of the sheets?1577
departance1579
deceasure1580
mortality1582
deceasing1591
waftage1592
launching1599
quietus1603
doom1609
expire1612
expiring1612
period1613
defunctiona1616
Lethea1616
fail1623
dismissiona1631
set1635
passa1645
disanimation1646
suffering1651
abition1656
Passovera1662
latter (last) end1670
finis1682
exitus1706
perch1722
demission1735
demise1753
translation1760
transit1764
dropping1768
expiry1790
departal1823
finish1826
homegoing1866
the last (also final, great) round-up1879
snuffing1922
fade-out1924
thirty1929
appointment in Samarra1934
dirt nap1981
big chill1987
1483 W. Caxton tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende 259/1 Thy departyng hens ne thy dormycyon shalle not be withoute wytnes.
1647 Bp. J. Hall Satans Fiery Darts i. iv. 47 Wert thou disposed..to plead, not so much for the utter extinction, as for the dormition of the soule.
1849 Ecclesiologist 9 227 A large sculpture..representing the death of our Lady; it is called the dormition or trépas de Notre Dâme.
1869 Life M. M. Hallahan (1870) 121 Her death, which in this case we may almost call her dormition.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online March 2019).
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