preces
Americanplural noun
Example Sentences
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The preces feriales at Lauds and Vespers are the same in structure.
From The Divine Office by Edward J. Quigley
In Prime and the Little Hours, the preces are unchanged standing in the new Breviary as in the old.
From The Divine Office by Edward J. Quigley
The versicles, antiphons, responses, preces and suffrages of saints, which are recited in semi-double offices, are given below under their own titles.
From The Divine Office by Edward J. Quigley
Cyprian has never called prayer a "sacrifice" without qualifying terms; on the contrary he collocates "preces" and "sacrificium," and sometimes also "oblatio" and "sacrificium."
From History of Dogma, Volume 2 (of 7) by Neil Buchanan
Her beads, falling one by one from her hand, denoted the number of her supplications; but, for once, they were preces sine mente dictæ.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 108, October, 1866 by Various
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