breviary

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

Translation

n. yhteenveto; [Catholicism] päivittäinen rukouskirja
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;

Mitä aikaa hänelle jäi jäljelle näiden tuhansien liiketoimintayksityiskohtien, virkojen ja virsilausuntojen jälkeen, hän antoi ensin apua tarvitseville, sairaille ja kärsiville;

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.

Kahdesta papista toinen istui alasti lukien virsilaulujaan ja toinen oli yöpaidassa ja rukoili rukousnauhaa.

Source: Selected Short Stories of Hemingway

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