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Definition of Paternosters
1. paternoster [n] - See also: paternoster
Lexicographical Neighbors of Paternosters
Literary usage of Paternosters
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Lexicon Cornu-britannicum: A Dictionary of the Ancient Celtic Language of by Robert Williams (1865)
"... that would every day say fifteen paternosters with a full heart to worship
the Passion of our dear Lord, in a year there would be as many paternosters ..."
2. Letters of James Smetham by James Smetham (1892)
"I know that though his lips moved in paternosters, and though his beads fell
steadily through his fingers, that the power of beauty enthralled his eye and ..."
3. A History of Bohemian Literature by Francis Lützow (1907)
"... but still moved before dying, was that required to recite rapidly two or at
the utmost three paternosters." The works of Hus, both Latin and Bohemian, ..."
4. Cassell's Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland: Being a Complete ...Great Britain (1900)
"paternosters. [FIEBRES DE LECQ.] Pathhead (1), qs pa., pa. of Dysart (qv), SE,
Fifes., So., lying within the burgh of Kirkcaldy. Pathhead (2), vil., pa, ..."
5. The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptomes by Robert Burton (1821)
"... that are by nature melancholy, and ~'s bast all affairs, to say so many
paternosters, ... paternosters ..."
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