Definition of "burnings" []

• Plural form of burning. (noun)

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• "A man may endure to touch the fire with a short touch, and away; but to dwell with everlasting burnings, that is fearful."
• "In fact, these "burnings" are the most extraordinary features in this "enlightened" country."
• "The great "burnings" and the human sacrifices in Babylonia, referred to in the Bible, were, no doubt, connected with agricultural religion of the private order, as was also the ceremony of baking and offering cakes to the Queen of"