breviary

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

Translation

n. resumen; [Catolicismo] un libro de oraciones diario
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;

¿Qué tiempo le quedaba, después de estos miles de detalles de negocios, y sus cargos y su breviario, lo dedicó primero a los necesitados, a los enfermos y a los afligidos;

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.

De los dos sacerdotes, uno estaba sentado en su ropa interior leyendo su breviario y el otro llevaba una bata y rezaba el rosario.

Source: Selected Short Stories of Hemingway

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