relique
noun
an archaic variant of relic.
reliques
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pluralof relique.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Said critics: Last year the city of Copenhagen paid a graceful compliment to the Gothic intellect by holding a memorial exhibit of reliques, papers, letters, reminiscent of the life of Wolfgang Goethe.
From Time Magazine Archive
Farewell! brave reliques of a compleat man, Look up, and see thy spirit made a starre.
From Bussy D'Ambois and The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois by Frederick S. Boas
Thy reliques, Rowe, to this fair urn we trust, And, sacred, place by Dryden’s awful dust; Beneath a rude and nameless stone he lies, To which thy tomb shall guide inquiring eyes.
From The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes Volume the Eighth: The Lives of the Poets, Volume II by Samuel Johnson
The cathedral possesses two reliques of real importance in the crosses which are placed to the left and right of the high-altar.
From The Cathedrals of Southern France by M. F. (Milburg Francisco) Mansfield
On being informed that Bach was Cantor to this school, and that his Motets were venerated there as reliques, he was eager to see them.
From Johann Sebastian Bach by Johann Nikolaus Forkel
