book of hours
Meanings
noun
- An illuminated Catholic devotional book, popular in the Middle Ages.
- Synonym of horologion, the equivalent of the breviary in Eastern Orthodoxy and Catholicism.
Word forms
Etymology
From the books' usual division of prayers according to the canonical hours.
Synonyms
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