Rhemish
Britishadjective
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Snotty clerk: “These have nary a blemish: Hand-stitched handkerchiefs, sewn by the Rhemish!”
From Washington Post
Rhemish, rē′mish, adj. pertaining to Rheims in north-eastern France.—Rhemish version, the English translation of the New Testament used by Roman Catholics, prepared at Rheims in 1582, forming part of the Douay Bible—Old Testament part prepared at Douay in 1609-10.
From Project Gutenberg
On Aug. 29 the King visited the Library on his way to Woodstock, and, asking for Fulke's Annotations on the Rhemish New Test., pointed out the remarks at Rom. x.
From Project Gutenberg
Apart from the prefaces to the various issues of the Bible, the most elaborate discussion of technical matters is Fulke's Defence of the Sincere and True Translation of the Holy Scriptures into the English Tongue, a Protestant reply to the claims of the Rhemish translators, published in 1589.
From Project Gutenberg
The preface to the Rhemish Testament accuses the Protestant translators of having in one place put into the text "three words more ... than the Greek word doth signify."
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