- plural of relic.
relics
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Similarly, we both embrace holy tradition, including the Bible, the church fathers and the seven ancient ecumenical councils, and we venerate the cross, Mary, saints, icons and holy relics.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026
It also contained various other relics – including metal weapons – belonging to the pre-Incan Chimu civilisation, a culture that flourished on the northern coast of Peru between 900 and 1470 AD.
From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026
There are large fragments of salt-eaten machinery littering the shore, relics of the island’s martial heyday.
From Slate ● Sep. 8, 2026
Possible surviving relics include gravitational waves, density fluctuations and ancient black holes.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 11, 2026
Perhaps it was the backdrop: Buck’s Peak was theirs and it camouflaged them, so that when I saw them there, surrounded by the loud, sharp relics of my childhood, the setting seemed to absorb them.
From "Educated" by Tara Westover
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