self-immolation
noun
Roget 942:
disinterestedness
etc.
adj.;
generosity;
liberality,
liberalism;
altruism;
benevolence
etc.
906;
elevation,
loftiness of purpose,
exaltation,
magnanimity;
chivalry,
chivalrous spirit;
heroism,
sublimity.
self-denial,
self-abnegation,
self-sacrifice,
self-immolation,
self-control
etc.
(resolution)
604;
stoicism,
devotion,
martyrdom,
suttee.
labor of love.
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Roget 991:
idolatry,
idolism†;
demonism†,
demonolatry†;
idol-worship,
demon-worship,
devil-worship,
fire-worship;
zoolatry,
fetishism,
fetichism;
ecclesiolatry†,
heliolatry,
Mariolatry,
Bibliolatry†.
deification,
apotheosis,
canonization;
hero worship.
sacrifices,
hecatomb,
holocaust;
human sacrifices,
immolation,
mactation†,
infanticide,
self-immolation,
suttee.
idol,
golden calf,
graven image,
fetich,
avatar,
Juggernath†,
lares et penates [Lat.];
Baal
etc.
986†.
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Moby thesaurus: altruism, blazing, blistering, branding, burning, burnt offering, calcination, car of Jagannath, carbonization, cauterization, cautery, cineration, collection, combustion, commitment, concremation, consecration, cracking, cremation, cupellation, dedication, deflagration, destructive distillation, devotion, disembowelment, disinterest, disinterestedness, distillation, distilling, drink offering, ex voto offering, felo-de-se, flaming, hara-kiri, heave offering, hecatomb, holocaust, human sacrifice, humility, immolation, incense, incineration, infanticide, libation, mactation, mass suicide, modesty, oblation, offering, offertory, oxidation, oxidization, parching, peace offering, piacular offering, pyrolysis, refining, ritual suicide, sacramental offering, sacrifice, scapegoat, scorching, scorification, searing, self-abasement, self-abnegation, self-denial, self-destruction, self-devotion, self-effacement, self-forgetfulness, self-murder, self-neglect, self-neglectfulness, self-renouncement, self-sacrifice, self-subjection, selflessness, seppuku, singeing, smelting, suicide, suttee, sutteeism, thank offering, the stake, thermogenesis, unacquisitiveness, unpossessiveness, unselfishness, vesication, votive offering, whole offering ... show more.
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