excarnation

Noun

Meaning

The act of depriving or divesting of flesh; excarnification; -- opposed to incarnation.

Examples

On the whole burials largely disappear across England, the dead being disposed of in a way which is archaeologically invisible: excarnation is a widely cited possibility. Source: Internet

This includes various forms of excarnation, where the corpse is stripped of the flesh, leaving only the bones, which are then either buried or stored elsewhere, in ossuaries or tombs for example. Source: Internet

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