Sentence:  On the street outside , Hieronymus envisions a holocaust of the vanities of this world , such a <WSD>burning</WSD> of artistic and erotic productions as his namesake actually brought to pass in Florence , and prophetically he issues his curse : `` Gladius Dei super terram cito et velociter '' . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  the act of burning something