Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. The process of falling asleep.
- n. euphemistic The process of death or the actual death itself.
- n. Eastern Orthodoxy, often capitalized The death and assumption into heaven of the Virgin Mary.
Etymologies
- From Middle French dormition, from Latin dormītiōnem. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“In the eighth century, for example, John Damascene, establishing a direct relationship between the 'dormition' of Mary and the death of Jesus, explicitly affirms the truth of her bodily assumption.”
“Following this, a twofold tradition - in Jerusalem and in Ephesus - attests to her 'dormition', as the Eastern Christians call it, her 'falling asleep' in God.”
“Mary asked that the Twelve Apostles be brought to her, then fell into a deep sleep, the dormition, and died peacefully.”
“Thy departing hence ne thy dormition shall not be without witness.”
“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.”
“These words came to the Fathers 'minds while meditating on the dormition and assumption of Our Blessed Lady.”
“Then we consult him upon matters of doctrine, and quiz him tenderly about his powers of dormition, and flatter him, or rather his age, with such phrases as, “The water from thy hand is of the Waters of”
“6.3 Book of John concerning the dormition of Mary (transitus mariæ) *”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘dormition’.
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Postscripture ✞
Terms associated with the Christianity, The Bible, etc. I have a related, but more narrow list called Imbible Code.
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phrontistery - d
from phrontistery.info
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
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Awesome Words, Part 2: More Common
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Bedaphors
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jmjarmstrong's list
Words that I used to know.
geloscopy, hunker, willy nilly, harum scarum, whacko, meh, nork, misunderestimate, atrabiliousness, luftmensch, auxanometer, hyperhedonia and 1948 more...
Tweets
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jmjarmstrong JM is a wake up to dormition! Sep 27, 2010
whichbe A falling asleep (and a euphemism for 'death'). (from WordCraft) May 20, 2008