Definitions for rosaries

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rosaries ro·sa·ry

Spelling: [roh-zuh-ree]

IPA: /ˈroʊ zə ri/

Rosaries is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 207 anagrams from letters in rosaries (aeiorrss).

Definitions for rosaries

noun

1. Roman Catholic Church. a series of prayers, usually consisting of 15 decades of aves, each decade being preceded by a paternoster and followed by a Gloria Patri, one of the mysteries or events in the life of Christ or the Virgin Mary being recalled at each decade. a string of beads used for counting these prayers during their recitation. a similar string of beads consisting of five decades.
2. (among other religious bodies) a string of beads similarly used in praying.
3. a rose garden or a bed of roses.

Origin of rosaries

1350-1400 for earlier sense; 1400-50 for sense “rose garden”; 1540-50 for def 1; Middle English rosarie Medieval Latin rosārium, in all current senses, Latin: rose garden, equivalent to ros(a

Examples for rosaries

The faithful were still saying the rosary when the officers informed them that they had to leave.

Say a rosary for the Blessed Virgin every morning before breaking your fast.

And he went straight to the rosary, as though he were determined to conquer death.

The parishioners began saying the rosary as a call went in to 911.

Her bony fingers were loaded with loose rings, and a rosary hung at her wrist.

On Wednesday mornings before mass, he recites the rosary in a special prayer of liberation from the chains of the devil.

For hours the beads of his rosary would glide between his fingers.

Maradona spent much of the game frantically gesticulating and clutching his rosary.

Stigler pressed his hand over the rosary he kept in his flight jacket.

Those who may be unable to come ought at least to say their rosary at home.'