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noun

the service book of the Church of England, essentially adopted but changed in details by other churches of the Anglican communion.

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How to use Book of Common Prayer in a sentence

Yet this, in the end, is a book from which one emerges sad, gloomy, disenchanted, at least if we agree to take it seriously.
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The vaccine is delivered through a “carrier virus” that causes a common cold in chimpanzees but does not affect humans.
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The supernaturalist alleges that religion was revealed to man by God, and that the form of this revelation is a sacred book.
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But Mrs. Dodd, the present vicar's wife, retained the precious prerogative of choosing the book to be read at the monthly Dorcas.
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A small book, bound in full purple calf, lay half hidden in a nest of fine tissue paper on the dressing-table.
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British Dictionary definitions for Book of Common Prayer

Book of Common Prayer

noun

the official book of church services of the Church of England, until 1980, when the Alternative Service Book was sanctioned

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Cultural definitions for Book of Common Prayer (1 of 2)

Book of Common Prayer

The book used in worship by the Anglican Communion; it has had several revisions since the Reformation, and different versions exist for different countries.

notes for Book of Common Prayer

The Book of Common Prayer, widely admired for the dignity and beauty of its language, has had a strong effect on the worship of Protestants outside the Anglican Communion, many of whom have borrowed its expressions. Most traditional Protestant wedding ceremonies, for example, follow the pattern of the Book of Common Prayer very closely.

Cultural definitions for Book of Common Prayer (2 of 2)

Book of Common Prayer

The book used in worship by the Anglican Communion. Its early versions, from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, were widely admired for the dignity and beauty of their language.

notes for Book of Common Prayer

The Book of Common Prayer has had a strong effect on literature in English through such expressions as “Let him now speak, or else hereafter for ever hold his peace,” and “We have left undone those things which we ought to have done.”