Church Slavonic
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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One of the main complaints against the UOC by those wanting to switch denominations is that services are usually held in Church Slavonic.
From Reuters ● May 12, 2023
Others said they wanted to worship in their own language, not Church Slavonic used by the UOC - an archaic religious language with similarities to Russian.
From Reuters ● May 12, 2023
All were also members of the superb chorus, which had obviously been finely drilled by Mr. Fox and well schooled in the pronunciation of Church Slavonic, presumably by a diction coach not identified.
From New York Times ● Jan. 1, 2016
Intellectuals are converting, and long dormant theological debates are reviving on such matters as whether to replace Old Church Slavonic with modern Russian in the liturgy.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Old or Church Slavonic knows only two degrees of comparison, the positive and comparative; it has no superlative, or rather it has the same form for the comparative and superlative.
From Historical View of the Languages and Literature of the Slavic Nations by Robinson, Therese Albertine Louise von Jacob
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