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- noun Plural form of
paternoster .
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Examples
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Hence there can be no doubt that the strings of prayerbeads were called "paternosters" because for a long time they were principally employed to number repetitions of the
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913
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"paternosters," he may mortify his body to the verge of self-destruction, and still be unsaved and unspiritual; so, too, he may
Spiritual Reformers in the 16th & 17th Centuries Rufus Matthew Jones 1905
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In the end I think it went OK - it was in the German foreign ministry, where you can easily work up the last-minute adrenalin by leaping in and out of the paternosters.
March Books 6) Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, by J.K. Rowling nwhyte 2009
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One pontificate even approved the turning of dice into beads for telling paternosters when, surprisingly, a momentary lapse in gambling occurred.
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Nevertheless, although their activities did not permit them to hear the Office in its entirety, they were to say a certain number of paternosters at the hour of prayer in order to make up for their failure to attend the Office.
Archive 2009-03-01 Lu 2009
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Annais passed her prayer beads through her fingers, counting them off, murmuring paternosters and aves until they lost their meaning, but there was vague comfort in the rhythmic pattern of the words.
The Falcons of Montabard Chadwick, Elizabeth 2004
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And he hath about his neck 300 pearls orient, good and great and knotted, as paternosters here of amber.
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Thirteen paternosters are assigned by our pious founder for matins, and nine for vespers; be those services doubled by thee.
Ivanhoe 2004
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In the meantime the lady was not very well content with the want of her paternosters, for they were one of her implements to keep her countenance by in the church; then thought with herself, This bold flouting roister is some giddy, fantastical, light-headed fool of a strange country.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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As he went from the church, they brought him, upon a dray drawn with oxen, a confused heap of paternosters and aves of
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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