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novena
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Novena is the fourth album by rock band Slapshock , released in 2004. It was certified gold in the Philippines.
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n. (context Roman Catholicism English) A recitation of prayers and devotions for nine consecutive days, especially one to a saint to ask for their intercession.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1745, from Medieval Latin novena, fem. of Latin novenus "ninefold," from novem "nine" (see nine ). Devotions consisting of special prayers or services on nine successive days.
Usage examples of novena.
Jones had been particularly taken with the engagingly mediaeval Novena of Saint Blaise.
She had been to church to make her confession yesterday, hoping the novena she offered would bring relief.
He looked almost a saint and his confessionbox was so quiet and clean and dark and his hands were just like white wax and if ever she became a Dominican nun in their white habit perhaps he might come to the convent for the novena of Saint Dominic.
In the dusk of an autumn day I went out to find the place where the Novena had worked the miracle of his healing.
The neo-pagans were always swiping novena candles from the Catholics to use in their circles.
I am going to make a novena so that I am there for that coming-out party.
When the petition went to the House of Lords the church ordered a special nine-day novena of prayer throughout the land to implore that justice might be done.
On the eve of the close of the novena, the eighth night, the Scout decided to perform his devotions at Kilsheelin.
Nine days before February 4, 1985, the first day set for their trial, Charlotte began saying a novena to Saint Martha, the patron saint of homemakers.
She was here, with whatever it was — her classes tomorrow at cosmetology school and her dad, a copper cold-cocking himself with brandy every night, and her mom saying novenas.