delubrum
Americannoun
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delubra
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Etymology
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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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
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
"If you do not clear your mind of false notions," he says, "nec delubra deum placido cum pectore adibis."
From The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus by Fowler, W. Warde
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