holy water

noun

holy water

water that has been blessed by a priest for use in symbolic rituals of purification

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before 900; Middle English haliwater, Old English hāligwæter

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To whom will the establishment hand the silver cross and vial of holy water?

He offered the general holy water and led him to his own clerical prayer stool.

The apparatus works its mayhem sprinkled with the Holy Water of transparency and consequences.

Leo II, pope, died; an able and resolute pontiff; established the kiss of peace at the mass, and the use of holy water.

A hideous old crone covered with rags knelt beside the Duchesss, who on leaving the church offered her holy water.

Uneasy, I left the church, but found him standing at the door and he offered to me the holy water as I passed.

Directly after entrance reverential genuflections and holy-water dipping are indulged in.

The gospel was read and also many prayers, and the Bishop sprinkled holy water over the whole of the ship.

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