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breviary

noun as in abridgment

noun as in synopsis

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A young priest was standing there overlooking the operations of some workmen, and muttering his breviary.

He knelt down as he said this, and with trembling lips and tearful eyes recited some verses from his breviary.

He sat with knitted brows at the foot of a bush, and nervously turned the pages of his breviary.

A Roman Breviary lay open on a velvet-covered table before the crucifix.

After he had thoroughly broken his fast, he went to church; and they carried for him, in a great basket, a huge breviary.

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On this page you'll find 75 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to breviary, such as: compendium, curtailment, decrease, digest, diminution, and epitome.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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