Definition of "interment" []

• The act or ritual of interring or burying. (noun)

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• "Burial is commonly called interment It is frequently has a considerable price tag and unquestionably the most pricey part of a funeral"
• "Due to extensive evidence that the identification of the eight Americans and two South Vietnamese crew members aboard this flight is highly inconclusive, the interment will be a difficult time for many family members whose loved ones were lost in this incident."
• "But the most recent statement is that his interment was a sham, and was part of a well-devised plan for facilitating his escape from France to Germany during the prevalence of rumoured attempts to restore the Stuarts, and that, after marrying the Countess of Waldsteine-Waters, he lived, bearing her name, to the age of eighty-six."