Angelus
English
Etymology
Noun
Angelus (plural Angeluses)
- A Christian devotion in memory of the Incarnation.
- The bell rung as a call to prayer during the Angelus service.
- 1879, James Albert Harrison, Spain in Profile: A Summer Among the Olives and Aloes:
- […] and having eternal aves and angeluses rung in their ears;
- 1998, Ciaran Carson, Last Night's Fun: A Book About Irish Traditional Music, page 151:
- 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.
Alternative forms
Derived terms
Translations
Christian devotion in memory of the Incarnation
bell rung as a call to prayer during the Angelus service
Cebuano
Quotations
For quotations using this term, see Citations:Angelus.
Latin
Proper noun
Angelus m (genitive Angelī); second declension
- a male given name, equivalent to English Angelo
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