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1. : an act of offering to a deity something precious. especially : the killing of a victim on an altar. 2. : something offered in sacrifice. 3. a. : destruction or surrender of something for the sake of something else. b. : something given up or lost. the sacrifices made by parents. 4. : loss. goods sold at a sacrifice. 5. : sacrifice bunt.
Sacrifice is the offering of material possessions or the lives of animals or humans to a deity as an act of propitiation or worship. [1] [2] Evidence of ritual animal sacrifice has been seen at least since ancient Hebrews and Greeks, and possibly existed before that.
Sacrifice, a religious rite in which an object is offered to a divinity in order to establish, maintain, or restore a right relationship of a human being to the sacred order. It is a complex phenomenon that has been found in the earliest known forms of worship and in all parts of the world.
A sacrifice is something important or precious that is given up for the sake of gaining something or allowing something to happen that is considered more important, as in I had to work hard and make a lot of sacrifices to achieve success.
C1. the act of giving up something that is valuable to you in order to help someone else: make a sacrifice We had to make sacrifices in order to pay for our children's education. at great sacrifice They cared for their disabled son for 27 years, at great personal sacrifice.
Britannica Dictionary definition of SACRIFICE. 1. : the act of giving up something that you want to keep especially in order to get or do something else or to help someone. [count] The war required everyone to make sacrifices. No sacrifice is too great when it comes to her children.
Sacrifice - Rituals, Offerings, Gods: The constituent elements of sacrifice have been incorporated into the particular religions and cultures of the world in various and often complex ways. A few brief observations that may illustrate this variety and complexity are given here.
