committal

1. (countable, uncountable)The act of entrusting something to someone.

   the act of committing a crime

2. (countable, uncountable)The act of committing someone to confinement; an order for someone's imprisonment.

   the official act of consigning a person to confinement (as in a prison or mental hospital)

3. (countable, uncountable)The act of perpetrating an offence.

4. (countable, uncountable)The act of committing a body to the grave at a burial or to the furnace at a cremation.

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