Dormition

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  • n. The process of falling asleep.
  • n. The process of death or the actual death itself.
  • n. The death and assumption into heaven of the Virgin Mary.
  • Word Usage
    "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."
    Hypernym
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