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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- abbreviation Iesus Nazarenus Rex Iudaeorum (Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews)
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Examples
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To the word INRI, inscribed on the Crux Ansata over the Master's Seat, many meanings have been assigned.
Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry Albert Pike 1850
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"Not at all," said the Marquis, "the painter is called INRI; do you not see his name upon all the pictures?"
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"Not at all," said the Marquis, "the painter is called INRI; do you not see his name upon all the pictures?"
Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency — Complete Louis de Rouvroy Saint-Simon 1715
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"Not at all," said the Marquis, "the painter is called INRI; do you not see his name upon all the pictures?"
Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency — Volume 02 Louis de Rouvroy Saint-Simon 1715
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Sight gags, flying saints, translucent fish, snakes, all manner of theatrical amusement is deployed within the gym-like space, the cross's formidable "INRI" on one side and a menacing Nazi banner on the other.
Regina Weinreich: The Passion of Sarah: Sarah Ruhl's Passion Play 2010
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We would take rocks and cover them with moss, and place pots of spring bulbs and branches to make Gethsemane and Calvary, with three crosses made of twigs lashed together on a hill, one with 'INRI' on in carefully-inked lettering on a little notice.
A Good Friday Rachel 2007
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Salvaged copper was cut into strips and stamped with 'INRI' to decorate the crosses.
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Sight gags, flying saints, translucent fish, snakes, all manner of theatrical amusement is deployed within the gym-like space, the cross's formidable "INRI" on one side and a menacing
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The guy from Satyricon seems to be very accurate - listening to the sustained ~260 bpm blast beats on "INRI" (a sped-up Sarcofago cover) sounds almost mechanical even though the production isn't that clean by Satyricon standards.
MetaFilter 2009
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It had a sign saying "INRI" attached to it (my mother made the sign using cardboard my dad's shirts were wrapped around by the laundry; to this day I call this white-on-one-side, gray-on-the-other-side cardboard "shirt cardboard").
AmeriNZ 2009
rolig commented on the word INRI
One of the mysterious words that haunted my childhood, delighting and awing me and, perhaps, nurturing my desire to understand the meanings of words and symbols. Others encountered in my otherwise austere Presbyterian church were IHS, which was both the initials of the first three words of the message in Constantine's vision: In hoc signo vinces as well as the first three letters of Jesus' name, in a kind of Latinized Greek alphabet: IHSOYS, and the intersecting Chi Rho (XP), another Constantinian symbol.
May 27, 2011