committal

  1. Noun.  The act of entrusting something to someone.
  2. Noun.  The act of committing someone to confinement; an order for someone's imprisonment.
  3. Noun.  The act of perpetrating an offence.
  4. Noun.  The act of committing a body to the grave at a burial or to the furnace at a cremation.
  5. Adjective.  Of or relating to a committee.

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