Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
reliquary .
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Examples
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DEMOISELLE: -- Should I ever win hame to my ain countrie, I make mine avow to enshrine in my reliquaire this elegant bijouterie and offering of La belle Rebelle.
The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales With Condensed Novels, Spanish and American Legends, and Earlier Papers Bret Harte 1869
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Other fragrant messengers followed in their season, but, if ever I "win hame to mine ain countrie," I make mine avow to enshrine that first rosebud in my _reliquaire_, with all honor and solemnity, there to abide till one of us shall be dust.
Border and Bastille 1851
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Then Odo stood forth by that mysterious receptacle covered with the cloth of gold, and said briefly, "Thou wilt swear, as far as is in thy power, to fulfil thy agreement with William, Duke of the Normans, if thou live, and God aid thee; and in witness of that oath thou wilt lay thy hand upon the reliquaire," pointing to a small box that lay on the cloth of gold.
Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Volume 09 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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Then Odo stood forth by that mysterious receptacle covered with the cloth of gold, and said briefly, "Thou wilt swear, as far as is in thy power, to fulfil thy agreement with William, Duke of the Normans, if thou live, and God aid thee; and in witness of that oath thou wilt lay thy hand upon the reliquaire," pointing to a small box that lay on the cloth of gold.
Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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Norman dungeons -- so darkly did all Haco's fears, and his own just suspicions, quell and master him, that mechanically, dizzily, dreamily, he laid his hand on the reliquaire, and repeated, with automaton lips:
Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Volume 09 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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Should a new church ever be built, I hope in a side chapel there will be an altar dedicated to St. Hannah, Virgin and Martyr; and that Your pen, worn to the bone, will be enclosed in a golden reliquaire, and preserved on the shrine.
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4 Horace Walpole 1757
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Lourdes (France): The reliquary Schrine of Saint Bernadette (Le reliquaire)
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Lourdes (France): The reliquary Schrine of Saint Bernadette (Le reliquaire)
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Lourdes (France): The reliquary Schrine of Saint Bernadette (Le reliquaire)
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Lourdes (France): The reliquary Schrine of Saint Bernadette (Le reliquaire)
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