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countable and uncountable, plural inhumations
The act of burial. quotations examples
"Cremation versus Inhumation" was the subject considered at the meeting of the Nineteenth Century Club at the residence of Mr. Courtlandt Palmer, No. 117 East One Hundred and Seventeenth-street, last evening.
1885 March 18, “Cremation or Burial”, in New York Times, retrieved 10 September 2010
Stampolidis's team has unearthed three types of Iron Age burials at Orthi Petra . . dating from the ninth to the seventh century B.C.: pithos (large ceramic jar) burials, cremations, and basic inhumations.
2010 March 10, Eti Bonn-Muller, “Dynasty of Priestesses”, in archaeology.org, retrieved 10 September 2010
The act of burying vessels in warm earth in order to expose their contents to a steady moderate heat; the state of being thus exposed. examples
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