Definition of Hecatombs

1. Noun. (plural of hecatomb) ¹

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Definition of Hecatombs

1. hecatomb [n] - See also: hecatomb

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hecatombs

hebona
hebonas
hebraization
hebraizations
hebraize
hebraized
hebraizes
hebraizing
hebrephrenic
hebrephrenics
hebrewess
hebrides
hecateromeric
hecato-
hecatomb
hecatombs (current term)
hecatomeral
hech
hechsher
hecht syndrome
hechting
hechts
hechtsbergite
heck
hecka
heckelphone
heckimal
heckle
heckled

Literary usage of Hecatombs

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Pilgrimage in Europe and America, Leading to the Discovery of the Sources of by Giacomo Costantino Beltrami (1828)
"... purified and whitened the victims offered in hecatombs to the deities and to the manes of the Romans. ..."

2. Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford, to Sir Horace Mann: His Britannic by Horace Walpole (1844)
"... where Borgia and his holy father* sent cardinals to the other world by hecatombs ... hecatombs ..."

3. A Pilgrimage in Europe and America: With a Description of the Whole Course by Giacomo Costantino Beltrami (1828)
"... purified and whitened the victims offered in hecatombs to the deities and to the manes of the Romans. ..."

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