shrine
noun
verb (used with object), shrined, shrin·ing.
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Contemporary Examples of shrine
Many clients come from the neighborhood surrounding the shrine.
Denied in his green-card application, he said, “I came instantly that day,” to the shrine.
One of the most important rooms in the temple is the shrine of Sheik Adi ibn Musafir.
In a long struggle with a smack addiction, he made novenas at the Shrine of St. Jude, patron of hopeless cases.
Justin Bieber was forced to apologize for his visit to the shrine this week.
Historical Examples of shrine
At the back of the garden you can see a shrine to the household gods.
Buried Cities: Pompeii, Olympia, MycenaeJennie Hall
The church became the shrine of the eikon of the Theotokos 227Hodegetria.
Byzantine Churches in ConstantinopleAlexander Van Millingen
The darkness of the shrine symbolises the darkness of the world, of life and death and being.
Things as They AreAmy Wilson-Carmichael
But the oracle comes because we had previously laid siege to the shrine.
Essays, First SeriesRalph Waldo Emerson
But the crowd had heard him and the insult offered to the shrine.
The Strolling SaintRaphael Sabatini