English Explanatory Dictionary

neck verse

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The verse formerly read to entitle a party to the benefit of clergy, said to be the first verse of the fifty-first Psalm, "Miserere mei," etc.
  2. A verse or saying, the utterance of which decides one's fate; a shibboleth.

Word forms

neck verse neck verses
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