committals in English

noun
1
the action of sending a person to an institution, especially prison or a psychiatric hospital.
his committal to prison
2
the burial of a corpse.
Today hundreds of mourners were due to attend a joint funeral service at All Saints and Martyrs, Wood Street, in Langley, followed by committal at Blackley crematorium.
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1. Committal (countable and uncountable, plural Committals) The act of entrusting something to someone

2. Synonyms for Buryings include burials, interment, sepulture, entombments, inhumation, obsequies, committals, funerals, last rites and depositions

3. ‘the high level of Committals’ ‘Committal proceedings’ ‘He then poses an obvious question - at a time of falling crime and declining Committals to prison, why was a commitment made to expand the prison system on an unprecedented scale?’

4. Few institutions in history evoke more horror than the turn of the 20th century “lunatic Asylums.” Infamous for involuntary committals and barbaric treatments, which often looked more like torture than medical therapies, state-run Asylums for the mentally ill were bastions of fear and distrust, even in their own era