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holy Mary

British  

noun

  1. a pietistic person

    he's a real holy Mary

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Pray for us, holy Mary, mother of God, now, while it is yet time for us to merit salvation, but pray for us especially when that solemn and sad hour of death has arrived.

From The Excellence of the Rosary Conferences for Devotions in Honor of the Blessed Virgin by Frings, Math Josef

But Juvenal answered, 'In the holy and divinely inspired Scripture, indeed, nothing is recorded of the departure of holy Mary, mother of God.

From Primitive Christian Worship Or, The Evidence of Holy Scripture and the Church, Against the Invocation of Saints and Angels, and the Blessed Virgin Mary by Tyler, James Endell

She informs us that she resisted the commands of God and the holy Mary till the year 1637, when she began to compose this curious rhapsody.

From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 by Disraeli, Isaac

And, under this persuasion, I say to them, as I just now said to you, holy Mary, holy Peter, holy Paul, pray for me.

From Primitive Christian Worship Or, The Evidence of Holy Scripture and the Church, Against the Invocation of Saints and Angels, and the Blessed Virgin Mary by Tyler, James Endell

Have mercy on me, God most mighty; And stand by me, thou Mother and Maid, holy Mary.

From "Everyman," with other interludes, including eight miracle plays by Rhys, Ernest

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