Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
novena .
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Examples
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Dans un temps de sécheresse, un curé des environs de Choisy, près Paris, est invité par ses paroissiens à faire une neuvaine pour obtenir de la pluie, ainsi qu'avaient fait tous ses confrères circonvoisins.
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[Our Lady of the Crypt], where a neuvaine was celebrated at the last mass at which the King and Queen assisted, and offered a silver-gilt statue of Notre Dame which weighed a hundred marks [eight hundred ounces], with the object of having lineage which might succeed to the throne.
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Madeleine caressed and prayed with the poor lady, and did her utmost to reassure and comfort her, promising a _neuvaine_ for her safe journey and meeting with her husband.
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She would turn the Convent out of the windows in the time of a neuvaine.
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Adolphine, then eighteen, -- who for the last seven years had sewed at the side of her grandmother in that cold household of monotonous and methodical customs, -- had undertaken her neuvaine all the more willingly because she hoped to inspire some feeling in Joseph Bridau, in whom she took the deepest interest because of the monstrosities which her grandfather attributed in her hearing to the young Parisian.
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Adolphine, then eighteen, -- who for the last seven years had sewed at the side of her grandmother in that cold household of monotonous and methodical customs, -- had undertaken her neuvaine all the more willingly because she hoped to inspire some feeling in Joseph Bridau, in whom she took the deepest interest because of the monstrosities which her grandfather attributed in her hearing to the young Parisian.
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Concealing the fact from her grandchildren, whom she accused of being "parpaillots," she had asked the curate to say a mass for Agathe's success during a neuvaine which was being held by her granddaughter, Adolphine
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Concealing the fact from her grandchildren, whom she accused of being "parpaillots," she had asked the curate to say a mass for Agathe's success during a neuvaine which was being held by her granddaughter, Adolphine
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You ought to make a neuvaine for him; I have seen wonderful cures come of the nine days’ prayer, and I would gladly pay for a wax taper to save such a gentle creature, so good he is, a paschal lamb — —”
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a _neuvaine_, or nine days 'devotion, to some other celestial personage; while the touch of a fragment of a tooth or bone of some departed saint was of sovereign efficacy to cure sickness, solace pain, or relieve a suffering squaw in the throes of childbirth.
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