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Sacrifice is the
offering of
material possessions or the
lives of
animals or
humans to a
deity as an act of
propitiation or worship.
Evidence of ritual...
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Human sacrifice is the act of
killing one or more
humans as part of a ritual,
which is
usually intended to
please or
appease gods, a
human ruler, public...
- In baseball, a
sacrifice bunt (also
called a
sacrifice hit) is a batter's act of
deliberately bunting the ball,
before there are two outs, in a manner...
- Look up
sacrifice,
sacrificer, or
sacrificial in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A
sacrifice is the
practice of
offering food, or the
lives of animals...
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finally crucified by the Romans. The
Gospel of John
portrays his
death as a
sacrifice for sin.
Jesus was
stripped of his
clothing and
offered vinegar mixed...
- in the
Hebrew Bible. In the
biblical narrative, God
orders Abraham to
sacrifice his son
Isaac on the
mountain called Jehovah-jireh in the
region of Moriah...
- form of
human sacrifice.
Child sacrifice is
thought to be an
extreme extension of the idea that the more
important the
object of
sacrifice, the more devout...
- In baseball, a
sacrifice fly (sometimes
abbreviated to sac fly) is
defined by Rule 9.08(d): "Score a
sacrifice fly when,
before two are out, the batter...
- A
sacrifice zone or
sacrifice area (often
termed a
national sacrifice zone or
national sacrifice area) is a
geographic area that has been
permanently changed...
- al-Adha (Arabic: عيد الأضحى, romanized: ʿĪd al-ʾAḍḥā, lit. 'Feast of
Sacrifice') is the
second of the two main
festivals in
Islam alongside Eid al-Fitr...
