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charnel

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7 lettersPronunciation [tʃɑːɹnəl]Part of speech adjective, nounSorted acehlnrStarts with CEnds with L0 clues
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Definitions

  1. gruesomely indicative of death or the dead

Word origin

From Middle English charnel, from Old French charnel, carnel, from Late Latin carnāle (“graveyard”), from Latin carnālis, or possibly an alteration of Anglo-Norman charner, from Medieval Latin carnārium (“charnel”). Displaced Middle English fleshusse, from Old English flǣsċhūs.

Used in a sentence

  • When Lazarus left his charnel-cave, ⁠And home to Mary’s house return’d, ⁠Was this demanded—if he yearn’d To hear her weeping by his grave?
  • He murmured to himself with dull despair, Here Faith died, poisoned by this charnel air.
  • 1 Are these the charnels, or pinnacles of helmets? See Meyrick, […]

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