breviary

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

Translation

n.sammanfattning;[Katolicism] en daglig bönbok
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;

Vilken tid som återstod åt honom, efter dessa tusen detaljer av arbete, och hans ämbetsuppgifter och hans breviarium, ägnade han först åt de nödställda, de sjuka och de lidande;

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.

Av de två prästerna satt den ena i sina underbyxor och läste i sin breviarium, medan den andra bar en nattlinne och bad rosenkransen.

Source: Selected Short Stories of Hemingway

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