rosary

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ro·sa·ry /ˈrəʊzəri $ ˈroʊ-/ noun (plural rosaries) [countableC]

1. RRCa string of beads used by Roman Catholics for counting prayers 〔天主教徒用的〕念珠

2 the rosary/the Rosary RRCthe set of prayers that are said by Roman Catholics while counting rosary beads 〔天主教的〕玫瑰经

say/recite the rosary

Three nuns knelt there, reciting the rosary.

三名修女跪在那儿念玫瑰经。

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say/recite the rosary• Three elderly nuns are on a bench in front of them; they are reciting the rosary.• It occurred to you that you might say the Rosary every day.• She said the best part is teaching people the significance and power of reciting the rosary.• The nuns, kneeling on the Edsa pavement before the tanks, saying the rosary.• Fong told his children the few Latin phrases he could remember and the way to say the rosary.

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rosary• She had names for them all, and would count them off sometimes like a rosary.• I saw Jack on deck alone after that, toying with a rosary, the first time I knew he carried one.• When he left, she stared at the empty space on the wall where his rosary beads had been.• Cer-tain rosaries are listed without mysteries.• Thérèse's ecstasy lasted through three decades of the rosary.• Fong told his children the few Latin phrases he could remember and the way to say the rosary.• After a moment or two of uncertain waiting, some one started the rosary.• The rosary last thing at night.

Origin rosary

(1400-1500) Medieval Latin rosarium, from Latin, “rose garden”, from rosa; → ROSE1

ro·sa·ry noun

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