committal
About 0.36 uses per million words.
Meaning
- noun The act of entrusting something to someone.
- noun The act of committing someone to confinement; an order for someone's imprisonment.
- noun The act of perpetrating an offence.
- noun The act of committing a body to the grave at a burial or to the furnace at a cremation.
- adjective Of or relating to a committee.
- adjective Of or relating to commitment.
Similar words
consignment commitment admission attendance referral appearance indictment remand incrimination arrival
Often followed by
of to for proceedings and in attitude on as
Word family
committals
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