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burnt offering

noun

  1. an offering burnt upon an altar in sacrifice to a deity.


burnt offering

noun

  1. a sacrificial offering burnt, usually on an altar, to honour, propitiate, or supplicate a deity
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Origin of burnt offering1

Middle English word dating back to 1350–1400
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The faithful smoke it as a sacrament in chalice pipes or cigarettes called “spliffs,†add it to plant-based organic stews and place it in fires as a burnt offering.

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The faithful smoke it as a sacrament in chalice pipes or cigarettes called “spliffs,†add it to vegetarian stews and place it in fires as a burnt offering.

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In the superb season finale, Kendall is like a burnt offering kindling an unexpected sea of flames.

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The ancient Greek term from which Holocaust arose meant a burnt offering; then, in early modern Europe, a holocaust was the death of humans by fire; then, by the 19th century, it came to mean a cataclysm generally; then, by the late 20th, the mass murder of the European Jews.

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In the end, the burnt offering of a staffer’s character is not enough.

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