breviary

[US]/'briːvɪərɪ/
[UK]/'brivɪɛri/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

n. resumé; [Catholicisme] en daglig bønnebog
Word Forms

Example Sentences

What time was left to him, after these thousand details of business, and his offices and his breviary, he bestowed first on the necessitous, the sick, and the afflicted;

Hvilken tid der var tilbage for ham efter disse tusinde detaljer om erhvervslivet, og hans embeder og hans timebøn, tildelte han først til de trængende, de syge og de plagede;

Real-world Examples

Of the two priests, one was sitting in his underwear reading his breviary and the other was wearing a nightshirt and saying the rosary.

Af de to præster sad den ene i undertøj og læste i sin boghymne, mens den anden havde et natskjorte på og bad rosenkransen.

Source: Selected Short Stories of Hemingway

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