holocaust englanniksi - Sanakirja.org (englanti-englanti)

A sacrifice that is completely burned to ashes.
The annihilation or near-annihilation of a group of animals or people, whether by natural or deliberate agency.
The state-sponsored mass murder of an ethnic group. In particular, the Holocaust (which see).
An inferno or fire disaster.

And to love a mans nehbour as hymsilfe, ys a greater thynge then all holocaustes and sacrifises.
in the holocaust or burnt-offering of Moses, the gall was cast away: for, as Ben Maimon instructeth, the inwards, whereto the gall adhereth, were taken out with the crop (according unto the law,) which the priest did not burn, but cast unto the east [...].
nuclear holocaust
a nuclear holocaust

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