breviary

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

Translation

n.Zusammenfassung;[Katholizismus] ein tägliches Gebetbuch
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;

Welche Zeit ihm nach all diesen tausend Details der Geschäfte und seinen Ämtern und seinem Brevier noch blieb, schenkte er zuerst den Bedürftigen, den Kranken und den Leidenden;

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.

Von den beiden Priestern saß der eine in Unterwäsche und lasse sein Brevier, während der andere ein Nachthemd trug und das Rosenkranzgebet sprach.

Source: Selected Short Stories of Hemingway

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