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n. - Celebration in the Eastern Orthodox church of the Virgin Mary's being taken up into heaven when her earthly life ended.

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  • Thy departing hence ne thy dormition shall not be without witness.
  • These words came to the Fathers 'minds while meditating on the dormition and assumption of Our Blessed Lady.
  • It is a position anciently known, and modern experience hath allowed it for a sad truth, that absence and time, -- like cold weather, and an unnatural dormition -- will...
  • Then we consult him upon matters of doctrine, and quiz him tenderly about his powers of dormition, and flatter him, or rather his age, with such phrases as, “The water...
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