Church Slavonic
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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The UOC says it has no objection to holding services in Ukrainian, but in Karyshkiv services were still held in Church Slavonic when Reuters visited.
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
The cathedral's choir insisted on singing in Old Church Slavonic, eschewing the English now used in most O.C.A. parishes.
From Time Magazine Archive
In the present age Church Slavonic, the ecclesiastical language of the orthodox Slavs, is only just intelligible to the peasantry of Russia and the neighbouring Slav countries.
From Chosen Peoples Being the First "Arthur Davis Memorial Lecture" delivered before the Jewish Historical Society at University College on Easter-Passover Sunday, 1918/5678 by Zangwill, Israel
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