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NOVENA (novenae)
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Irregular inflected form: novenae
Dictionary entry overview: What does novena mean?
• NOVENA (noun)
The noun NOVENA has 1 sense:
1. a Roman Catholic devotion consisting of prayers on nine consecutive days
Familiarity information: NOVENA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A Roman Catholic devotion consisting of prayers on nine consecutive days
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("novena" is a kind of...):
devotion ((usually plural) religious observance or prayers (usually spoken silently))
Domain category:
Church of Rome; Roman Catholic; Roman Catholic Church; Roman Church; Western Church (the Christian Church based in the Vatican and presided over by a pope and an episcopal hierarchy)
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