delubrum
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Origin of delubrum
1655–65; < Latin dēlūbrum, apparently equivalent to dēlu ( ere ) to wash off ( dē- de- + -luere, combining form of lavere to wash) + -brum instrumental suffix
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In a narrower sense, templum denotes a great temple of one of the principal gods; whereas fanum and delubrum, a smaller temple of an inferior god, or of a hero, etc.
From Döderlein's Hand-book of Latin Synonymes by Döderlein, Ludwig
His credulity is shewn by the belief he held, that the name of a place called Ainnit in Sky was the same as the Anaitidis delubrum in Lydia.
From Life of Johnson, Volume 2 1765-1776 by Hill, George Birkbeck Norman
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