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the math where you trade something you love for something you love more.
means To give up something valued for the sake of something considered more important or worthy.
from From Latin sacrificium, a marriage of sacer 'sacred, holy' and facere 'to make' — literally 'to make sacred.' The original act was priestly: an offering surrendered to the gods, made holy by the giving up of it. The word came into English through Old French sacrifice, and over centuries its altar-smoke faded into the everyday sense of any cherished thing laid down for a greater cause. The 'sacred' is still buried right there in the spelling.
- chess move
- Champions give up queens to win games faster
- word root
- Latin sacer-facere literally means to make sacred
- baseball term
- A sacrifice bunt counts as no at-bat
- bodily proof
- Mothers retain fetal cells in their bodies for life
- ancient ledger
- Aztecs believed the sun ran on offered hearts
abraham and isaac — biblical story where abraham prepares to sacrifice his son isaac on mount moriah before god intervenes
aztec human sacrifice — tenochtitlan performed thousands of sacrifices annually, including the gladiatorial combat tlacamictiliztli
animal sacrifice eid al-adha — muslims worldwide sacrifice rams, goats, and cattle during this islamic festival each year
moloch carthage — tophet site in carthage where archaeological evidence suggests carthaginians sacrificed children to the deity moloch