entombmentn.
/ɛnˈtuːmmənt/ The action of entombing; literal and figurative.
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1666 G. Alsop Char. Province Maryland 68 They give him no other intombment, then.
a1677 I. Barrow Wks. (1686) III. 218 It [sc. idleness] is the very entombment of a man.
1842 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 52 420 The double entombment of Napoleon.
1877 J. B. Mozley Univ. Serm. (ed. 3) iii. 61 What an entombment of mind should we have!
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