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committal^¹

/kəˈmɪtəl/

Rhymes with -ɪtəl

noun committals · commital

countable, uncountable The act of entrusting something to someone.
countable, uncountable The act of committing someone to confinement; an order for someone's imprisonment.
countable, uncountable The act of perpetrating an offence.
countable, uncountable The act of committing a body to the grave at a burial or to the furnace at a cremation.

committal^²

adjective more committal · most committal

not comparable, usually Of or relating to a committee.
not comparable, usually Of or relating to commitment. On reading the work, we have become impressed with this fact, and have several times wished that the author was more committal on the treatment of several diseases in which he himself must have had a large experience.

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noun the act of putting a body into a grave

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@misc{committal_2026,
  title = {committal},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/committal},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}