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shrine
[ shrahyn ]
noun
- a building or other shelter, often of a stately or sumptuous character, enclosing the remains or relics of a saint or other holy person and forming an object of religious veneration and pilgrimage.
- any place or object hallowed by its history or associations:
a historic shrine.
- any structure or place consecrated or devoted to some saint, holy person, or deity, as an altar, chapel, church, or temple.
- a receptacle for sacred relics; a reliquary.
verb (used with object)
shrined, shrining.
- to enshrine.
shrine
/ ʃɪ /
noun
- a place of worship hallowed by association with a sacred person or object
- a container for sacred relics
- the tomb of a saint or other holy person
- a place or site venerated for its association with a famous person or event
- RC Church a building, alcove, or shelf arranged as a setting for a statue, picture, or other representation of Christ, the Virgin Mary, or a saint
verb
- short for enshrine
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Derived Forms
- ˈԱˌ, adjective
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Other Word Forms
- Աl adjective
- Աl adjective
- ܲ·Ա adjective
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Word History and Origins
Origin of shrine1
before 1000; Middle English schrine, Old English ī (cognate with German Schrein, Dutch schrijn ) < Latin īium case for books and papers
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Word History and Origins
Origin of shrine1
Old English ī, from Latin īium bookcase; related to Old Norse skrin, Old High German īԾ
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My fridge used to be a shrine to burnout — shelves of vitamins, maybe a jar of mustard, nothing resembling a meal.
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Tens of thousands of people braved the heavy rain for a glimpse of Pope Francis when he visited the shrine in 2018.
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At the mouth of every tunnel there is a small shrine to Saint Barbara, the patron saint of miners.
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“They just took all the corpses and put them in a pit near the village shrine,” she said.
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Believers by the thousands used to come to the Altadena shrine on pilgrimages, and water was brought from Lourdes to replenish its pool.
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