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Divine Office   /dɪvˈaɪn ˈɔfəs/   Listen
Divine Office

noun
1.
Canonical prayers recited daily by priests (e.g. the breviary of the Roman Catholic Church).





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"Divine office" Quotes from Famous Books



... undergone since love had touched her heart, and her visions of worldly enjoyment had faded before the thought of sharing and ennobling the life of one who was worthy of her best affections,—of living for another, and of finding her own noblest self in that divine office of woman? She had laid aside the bracelet which she had so long worn as a kind of charm as well as an ornament. One would have said her features had lost something of that look of imperious beauty which had added to her resemblance to ...
— The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (The Physician and Poet not the Jurist)


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