breviary

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

Translation

n.resumo;[Catolicismo] um livro de oração diário
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;

Qual o tempo que lhe restava, após esses milhares de detalhes de negócios, e seus cargos e seu breviário, ele concedeu primeiro aos necessitados, aos doentes e aos aflitos;

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.

Dos dois padres, um estava sentado de roupa íntima lendo seu breviário e o outro vestia um camisote e rezava o terço.

Source: Selected Short Stories of Hemingway

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