breviary

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

Translation

n. riassunto; [Cattolicesimo] un libro di preghiere quotidiane
Word Forms
pluralebreviaries

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;

Quale tempo gli era rimasto, dopo tutti questi mille dettagli di lavoro, e i suoi incarichi e il suo breviario, lo dedicò prima ai bisognosi, ai malati e agli afflitti;

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.

Dei due sacerdoti, uno era seduto a gamba nuda a leggere il breviario e l'altro indossava una camicia da notte e recitava il rosario.

Source: Selected Short Stories of Hemingway

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