Usually means: Temporary, peaceful state resembling sleep.
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  1. dormition: Merriam-Webster
  2. Dormition: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. dormition: Collins English Dictionary
  4. Dormition: Vocabulary.com
  5. Dormition: Wordnik
  6. dormition: Wiktionary
  7. dormition: Dictionary.com
  8. Dormition: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. Dormition: Rhymezone
  10. dormition: FreeDictionary.org
  11. dormition: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  12. dormition: Mnemonic Dictionary
  13. Dormition: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. dormition: Wordcraft Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (dormition)

noun:  The process of falling asleep.
noun:  (euphemistic) The process of death or the actual death itself.
noun:  (Eastern Orthodoxy, often capitalized) The death and assumption into heaven of the Virgin Mary.

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