dormition

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6.3 Book of John concerning the dormition of Mary (transitus mariæ) *

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  1. A sleeping; the state or condition of sleep, especially a prolonged one. [Rare.] Wert thou disposed … to plead, not so much for the utter extinction as for the dormitione of the soul. Bp. Hall, Works, VII. 295. We consult him upon matters of doctrine, and quiz him tenderly upon his powers of dormition. R. F. Burton, El-Medinah, p. 70.

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  • 6.3 Book of John concerning the dormition of Mary (transitus mariæ) * —  Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions
  • It is a position anciently known, and modern experience hath allowed it for a sad truth, that absence and time, -- like cold weather, and an unnatural dormition -- will blast and wear out of memory the most endearing obligations; and hence it was that some politicians in love have looked upon the former of these two as a main remedy against the fondness of that passion. —  Poems of Henry Vaughan, Silurist, Volume II
 

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  1. = Old French dormition, dormison, French dormition = Provencal dormicio = Spanish dormicion = Italian dormizione, from Latin dormitio(n-), sleep, from dormire, sleep: see dorm.
 

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