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Definition of Reliques
1. relique [n] - See also: relique
Lexicographical Neighbors of Reliques
Literary usage of Reliques
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Cambridge Modern History by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton, Ernest Alfred Benians, Sir Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero (1909)
"The appeal of the Reliques was simpler and more straightforward. The love of
action and adventure, the joy of battle and of freedom unchecked by law, ..."
2. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1861)
"... (chests) of Reliques were laid; and again, any »acred place or place of prayer.
To this I may append an extract from one of the Rev. ..."
3. Science and Health, with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy, H. Tetu, Wilfrid Philip Ward (1889)
"CHAPITRE IV Translation des reliques de saint Paul. ... Mgr de Raint-Vallier
avait apporté plusieurs reliques précieuses appartenant à l'abbaye de Maubec, ..."
4. Letters of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. by Samuel Johnson (1892)
"His Reliques of Ancient English Poetry did not appear till 1765; nevertheless it
is no doubt this work which was the subject of this letter. ..."
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