breviary

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

Translation

n.résumé;[Catholicisme] un livre de prière quotidien
Word Forms
Plurielbreviaries

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;

Quel temps lui restait, après ces mille détails d'affaires, et ses fonctions et ses offices, il consacrait d'abord aux nécessiteux, aux malades et aux affligés ;

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.

Des deux prêtres, l'un était assis en sous-vêtements en lisant ses heures et l'autre portait une chemise de nuit et récitait le rosaire.

Source: Selected Short Stories of Hemingway

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