dormition
nounUK /dɔːˈmɪʃ(ə)n/ · US /dɔɹˈmɪʃ(ə)n/
Etymology Borrowed from Middle French dormition, from Latin dormītiōnem.
1
The process of falling asleep.
2
Euphemistic The process of death or the actual death itself.
3
Capitalized, Often The death and assumption into heaven of the Virgin Mary.
Eastern Orthodoxy
- The Virgin had allegedly given away her robe just before her death – what is in Eastern tradition called her Dormition, or falling asleep.2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 507:
- Derived terms
- obdormition