Meaning of sacrifice | Babel Free

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1. Originally, the killing (and often burning) of a human being or an animal as an offering to a deity; later, also the offering of an object to a deity.
   countable, uncountable
2. Originally, the killing (and often burning) of a human being or an animal as an offering to a deity; later, also the offering of an object to a deity
3. A human being or an animal, or a physical object or immaterial thing (see etymology 1 sense 1.3), offered to a deity.
   countable, uncountable
4. A human being or an animal, or a physical object or immaterial thing (see etymology 1 sense 1.3), offered to a deity
5. To offer as a sacrifice:immolate, victimize.
6. The offering of devotion, penitence, prayer, thanksgiving, etc., to a deity.
   countable, figuratively, uncountable
7. The offering of devotion, penitence, prayer, thanksgiving, etc., to a deity
8. sacrificial victims. offeragtig قُرْباني، ذَبائِحي жертвен sacrifical obětní Opfer-... offer-; ofrings- θυσιαστικός de sacrificio ohvri- مربوط به قرباني uhri- sacrificiel שֶׁל קָרבָּן यज्ञ, बलि žrtven áldozati untuk pengorbanan fórnar- sacrificale いけにえの 제물의, 희생의 aukojamas upura-; upurēšanas korban offer-offer-, blot-ofiarny دقربانۍ sacrifical de sacrificiu жертвенный obetný daritven žrtveni offer- ที่เสียสละ kurbanlık 被犧牲的 жертовний ذبیح thuộc sự hi sinh 牺牲的
9. Jesus Christ's voluntary offering of himself to God the Father to be crucified as atonement for the sins of humankind.
   countable, specifically, uncountable
10. Jesus Christ's voluntary offering of himself to God the Father to be crucified as atonement for the sins of humankind. The rite of Holy Communion or the Mass, regarded as an offering of thanksgiving to God for Christ's crucifixion, or a perpetual re-presentation of Christ's sacrificial offering
11. offeragtig ذَبائِحِيّا، قُرْبانِيّا жертвено em sacrifício jako oběť aufopferungsvoll offervilligt θυσιαστικά en forma de sacrificio ohverdavalt وابسته به فرباني uhrautuvasti en guise de sacrifice בְּתוֹר קָרבָּן यज्ञीयता से, यज्ञभाव से žrtveno áldozatként dengan pengorbanan í stað fórnar come sacrificio 犠牲にして 제물로, 희생으로 pasiaukojamai upura veidā; kā upuris; upurējot secara korban als offer offervillig ofiarnie دقربانۍ em sacrifício drept jertfă, de sacri­ficiu жертвенно ako obeť daritveno, žr...
12. The rite of Holy Communion or the Mass, regarded as (Protestantism) an offering of thanksgiving to God for Christ's crucifixion, or (Roman Catholicism) a perpetual re-presentation of Christ's sacrificial offering.
    broadly, countable, specifically, uncountable
13. Jesus Christ's voluntary offering of himself to God the Father to be crucified as atonement for the sins of humankind
14. sacrificio; v. sacrificar.
15. The destruction or surrender of anything for the sake of something else regarded as more urgent or valuable; also, the thing destroyed or surrendered for this purpose.
    countable, figuratively, uncountable
16. The act of offering something to a deity in propitiation or homage, especially the ritual slaughter of an animal or a person.
17. Ellipsis of sacrifice bunt or sacrifice hit (“a play in which the batter intentionally hits the ball softly with a hands-spread batting stance at the cost of an out to advance one or more runners”).
    abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, figuratively, uncountable
18. The act of giving up something highly valued for the sake of something else considered to have a greater value or claim: Social activism often involves tremendous sacrifice.
19. In full sacrifice bid: a bid of a contract which is unlikely to be fulfilled, that a player makes in the hope that they will incur fewer penalty points than the points likely to be gained by opponents in making their contract.
    countable, figuratively, uncountable
20. Relinquishment of something at less than its presumed value.
21. A monetary loss incurred by selling something at less than its value; also, the thing thus sold.
    countable, dated, figuratively, slang, uncountable
22. Baseball A sacrifice bunt or sacrifice fly.
    Baseball
23. An act of intentionally allowing one's piece to be captured by the opponent in order to improve one's position in the game.
    countable, figuratively, uncountable
24. To offer as a sacrifice to a deity.
25. To give up (one thing) for another thing considered to be of greater value.

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Examples

“They firſt vvaſh the dead body, paint him, clothe him, and ſo conueigh him to his Dormitorie, vvhich is ſpacious and neat, vvherein they bury his Armolets, Bracelets, Shackles and ſuch Treaſure, concluding their Ceremonies vvith Mimmicke geſtures and eiaculations: vvhich, vvith the Sacrifice of a Goat, vpon his Graue, puts a period to their Burials.”

“[T]he Beaſts they offered in ſacrifice, and the Gifts they offered, and their actions in VVorſhipping, vvere full of ſubmiſſion, and commemorative of benefits received, vvas according to reaſon, as proceeding from an intention to honour him [God].”

“[…] Moloch, horrid King beſmear'd with blood / Of human ſacrifice, and parents tears, / Though for the noyſe of Drums and Timbrels loud / Their childrens cries unheard, that paſt through fire / To his grim Idol.”

“This day the Philiſtines a popular Feaſt / Here celebrate in Gaza; and proclaim / Great Pomp, and Sacrifice, and Praiſes loud / To Dagon, as their God vvho hath deliver'd / Thee Samſon bound and blind into thir hands, […]”

“O th'inchaunting vvords of that baſe ſlaue, / Made him to thinke Epeus pine-tree Horſe [i.e., the Trojan Horse] / A ſacrifize t'appeaſe Mineruas vvrath: […]”

“Make of your Prayers one ſvveet Sacrifice, / And lift my Soule to Heauen.”

“Does the mute Sacrifice upbraid the Prieſt? / He knovvs him not his Executioner.”

“Let vs therfore by him [Jesus] offre allwayes vnto God the ſacrifice of prayſe: that is to ſaye, the frute of thoſe lippes which confeſſe his name.”

“[W]e thy humble ſeruauntes […] entierely deſiryng thy fatherly goodnes, mercifully to accepte this our Sacrifice of praiſe and thankes geuing: […]”

“And they ſhall come […] bringing ſacrifices of praiſe vnto the houſe of the Lord.”

“The pretensions of the holy see, the authority of tradition, purgatory, transubstantiation, the sacrifice of the mass, […] were copiously discussed.”

“the sacrifice of one’s spare time in order to volunteer”

“As rich ſhall Romeo by his Lady [Juliet] lie, / Poore Sacrifices to our Enmitie.”

“The benefit vvhich a Soveraign beſtovveth on a Subject, […] are rather Sacrifices, vvhich the Soveraign (conſidered in his naturall perſon, and not in the perſon of the Common-vvealth) makes, for the appeaſing the diſcontent of him he thinks more potent than himſelfe; and encourage not to obedience, but on the contrary, to the continuance, and increaſing of further extortion.”

“Ambition this ſhall tempt to riſe, / Then vvhirl the vvretch from high, / To bitter Scorn a ſacrifice, / And grinning Infamy.”

“[Henry Hyde, 2nd Earl of] Clarendon saw that he was not likely to gain anything by the sacrifice of his principles, and determined to take them back again.”

“And it's no sacrifice / Just a simple word / It's two hearts living / In two separate worlds / But it's no sacrifice / No sacrifice / It's no sacrifice at all”

“The Old Year was already looked upon as dead; and its effects were selling cheap like some drowned mariner's aboardship. Its patterns were Last Year's and going at a sacrifice, before its breath was gone. Its treasures were mere dirt, beside the riches of its unborn successor!”

“[H]e bought a green shawl for Mrs. Bolton, and a yellow one for Fanny: the most brilliant "sacrifices" of a Regent-street haberdasher's window.”

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