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shrine::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | house of worship, house of prayer, house of god, place of worship |
| Has types | tope, oracle, stupa |
Examples of shrine
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The room is a shrine to his father and a career that took him across the nation.
From the stltoday.com
She tends to his shrine in a suspiciously expensive looking marble-floored home.
From the theepochtimes.com
Bob Bragalone's massive collection of Cowboys items is part museum, part shrine.
From the dallasnews.com
No place on campus serves as a shrine to former athletes and their achievements.
From the thestate.com
His bedroom, even in the state of disarray in which he left it, became a shrine.
From the timesunion.com
A few years later, a resident wanted to put up a Buddhist shrine near the cross.
From the cnn.com
The comments followed days of low-level unrest at the city's most sacred shrine.
From the heraldtribune.com
The Virgin Mother had been moved from the shrine then as well and secreted away.
From the time.com
The blasts damaged the shrine and blew out the windows of neighboring buildings.
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- A place of worship hallowed by association with some sacred thing or person
- Enshrine: enclose in a shrine; "the saint's bones were enshrined in the cathedral"
- "The Shrine" is the 86th of the science fiction television series Stargate Atlantis and is the sixth episode in its fifth season. The episode is also the 300th produced episode in the overall Stargate franchise. ...
- The Shrine is a Canadian horror-thriller film, it was directed by Jon Knautz. The screenplay was written by Jon Knautz, Brendan Moore and Trevor Matthews.
- A holy or sacred place, which is dedicated to a specific deity, ancestor, hero, martyr, saint, or similar figure of awe and respect, at which said figure is venerated or worshipped; To enshrine
- (shrining) Gerund of shrine
- (Shrines) On the island of Ambrosia four shrines were erected and dedicated to the four categories of life; Strength, Wisdom, Intelligence, and Dexterity. Although thought destroyed when Ambrosia was lost, they were found once more during The Third Age of Darkness.
- (shrines) The Latin word from which the English is taken means a chest, and a shrine was originally a chest in which a relic was kept (reliquary). It was commonly used to mean a sacred image, especially one to which pilgrimages were made. ...
- (Shrining) Using a rest shine to replenish hit points & spell points.
