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Disinterment

noun
1.
The act of digging something out of the ground (especially a corpse) where it has been buried.  Synonyms: digging up, exhumation.





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... its wonders are again admitted, but explained; the false in it separated from the true; this is its third and last period. And it may be remarked, that society is never safe against the reproduction of a superstition, till it has gone through this third stage (analogous to the disinterment and dissection of a vampyr); till then, it is always capable of "walking" again. But, which is singular, to the end the operation of explaining a superstition is unsafe, that is to say, if you step a quarter ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847 • Various
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Words linked to "Disinterment" :   human action, human activity, deed, exhumation, disinter, act


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