exanimation

English

Etymology

Latin exanimatio.

Noun

exanimation (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) Deprivation of life or spirits.
    Synonym: lifelessness
    • 1761, A Complete History of the Arabs:
      The second [blast of the trumpet] they denominate the blast of exanimation; when all creatures both in heaven and earth shall die, or be annihilated, except those which God shall please to exempt from the common fate.
    • 1923, Clark Ashton Smith, Weird Tales, The Charnel God:
      Must you take the girl from the temple? Always, ere this, you have contented yourself with the brief loan that the priests allow, and have rendered back the dead in the required state of exanimation.

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