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Imminution
- - A lessening; diminution; decrease.
Immolating
- verb - offer as a sacrifice by killing or by giving up to destruction; "The Aztecs immolated human victims"; "immolate the valuables at the temple"
Immolation
- noun - killing or offering as a sacrifice
Immunities
- noun - (medicine) the condition in which an organism can resist disease
- an act exempting someone; "he was granted immunity from prosecution"
- the quality of being unaffected by something; "immunity to criticism"
- the state of not being susceptible; "unsusceptibility to rust"
Immutation
- - Change; alteration; mutation.
Impanation
- - Embodiment in bread; the supposed real presence and union of Christ's material body and blood with the substance of the elements of the eucharist without a change in their nature; -- distinguished from transubstantiation, which supposes a miraculous change of the substance of the elements. It is akin to consubstantiation.
Impedition
- - A hindering; a hindrance.
Impeditive
- - Causing hindrance; impeding.
Impenitent
- adjective - impervious to moral persuasion
- not penitent or remorseful
Imperative
- adjective - a mood that expresses an intention to influence the listener's behavior
- relating to verbs in the imperative mood
- requiring attention or action; "as nuclear weapons proliferate, preventing war becomes imperative"; "requests that grew more and more imperative"
- some duty that is essential and urgent