myrrh

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Word Records, founded in the city in 1951, helped spread a Southern-style evangelical message to the masses — and released Grant’s 1977 self-titled debut on its Myrrh Records subsidiary.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 5, 2021

"I like to burn candles or incense, Frankincense or Myrrh, and have a quiet time to reflect on my day."

From BBC • Jan. 5, 2018

The church named the first year’s sheep Gold, Frankincense and Myrrh after the gifts the three wise men brought when Jesus was born.

From New York Times • Aug. 27, 2017

Myrrh was a known contraceptive at the time, cited in the writings of Soranus of Ephesus, a Greek physician who was an expert on gynecology and midwifery.

From Salon • Jan. 5, 2014

Myrrh, mėr, n. a bitter, aromatic, transparent gum, exuded from the bark of a shrub in Arabia.—adj.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various