Definitions for monstrance

monstrance mon·strance

Spelling: [mon-struh ns]
IPA: /ˈmɒn strəns/

Monstrance is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 1129 anagrams from letters in monstrance (acemnnorst).

Definitions for monstrance

noun

  1. a receptacle in which the consecrated Host is exposed for adoration.

Origin of monstrance

1250-1300; Middle English Medieval Latin mōnstrantia, equivalent to mōnstr(āre) to show (see muster) + -antia -ance

Examples for monstrance

The monstrance is late Gothic, with a foot added in the seventeenth century.

None of these accounts represents Clara as going to meet them with a monstrance.

Then he bowed low to the monstrance on the altar, and lower still to the figure of the Virgin.

The archbishop fell to the ground, as did the lunette of the monstrance.

At this monstrance, still the pride of Portuguese art, Gil Vicente worked during three years (1503-6).

Sunlight now falls on the monstrance in the church above, so that it shines like a window pane at sunset.

She held him out proudly in her arms, as if he were monstrance and she priest.

You are thinking of the monstrance which should have been of gold but was of silver?

The Church door is open, and at a certain moment the monstrance on the altar is visible in the light of the sun.

He walked up to the little altar to place the monstrance on it.

Word Value for monstrance
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Words with friends

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