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holy Mary

British  

noun

  1. a pietistic person

    he's a real holy Mary

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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If holy Mary aid thee in that avoidment, ’tis more than she doth for me.”

From The White Rose of Langley A Story of the Olden Time by Emily Sarah Holt

She would alway stay at holy Mary her image, to see if the lamp were alight; but I—the saints forgive me!—I never cared thereabout.

From The White Rose of Langley A Story of the Olden Time by Emily Sarah Holt

Accordingly we say in the litany "Lord, have mercy on us: holy Mary pray for us" etc.

From The Ceremonies of the Holy-Week at Rome by Charles Michael Baggs

O that I had, like holy Mary, the Mother of Jesus, treasured up all his sayings in my heart!

From Lives of John Donne, Henry Wotton, Rich'd Hooker, George Herbert, &C, Volume 2 by Izaak Walton

But Juvenal answered, 'In the holy and divinely inspired Scripture, indeed, nothing is recorded of the departure of holy Mary, mother of God.

From Primitive Christian Worship Or, The Evidence of Holy Scripture and the Church, Against the Invocation of Saints and Angels, and the Blessed Virgin Mary by James Endell Tyler

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