Angelus
Pronunciations
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/ˈænd͡ʒələs/
Proper noun
A male given name from Ancient Greek, of rare usage, variant of Angelo.
Noun
A Christian devotion in memory of the Incarnation.
The bell rung as a call to prayer during the Angelus service.
- Examples
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[…]and having eternal aves and angeluses rung in their ears;
More examples (1)
The yodel in it brought to mind incongruous images, full of holes as a Swiss cheese: among the alpenhorns and cuckoo clocks, cowbells clunked and donged like angeluses gone awry.
Word forms
Angelusesangelus