Definitions for novena

novena no·ve·na

Spelling: [noh-vee-nuh, nuh-]
IPA: /noʊˈvi nə, nə-/

Novena is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 73 anagrams from letters in novena (aennov).

Definitions for novena

noun

  1. a devotion consisting of nine separate days of prayers or services.

Origin of novena

1850-55; Medieval Latin novēna, noun use of feminine singular of Latin novēnus nine each

Examples for novena

Would you like a 'novena' to 'Our Lady of Tears,' whose altar is here?

These devotions were called a novena, which was a nine days' prayer-meeting.

The novena commenced on Sunday evening, the 8th of November.

Sylvia thanked her for the novena just as she would have thanked her for the woolen vest.

I then said to the saint, 'I only ask it to go to the novena and benediction.'

On the last day of the novena, she made a fervent communion.

Mamma,” asked Litka, “is it really necessary to say a novena for Pan Stas?

And after the retreat there is to be a novena of the Blessed Virgin.

Since then nothing in the novena that is memorable is registered.

This is what is said in the frontispiece of his novena, Manila 1918.

Word Value for novena
Scrable

9

Words with friends

12

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