relic
suomi-englanti sanakirjarelic englannista suomeksi
muistoesine, muisto
jäännös, jäänne, reliikki
Substantiivi
Verbi
relic englanniksi
That which remains; that which is left after loss or decay; a remaining portion.
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(RQ:Shakespeare All's Well) let him not ask our pardon;The nature of his great offence is dead,And deeper than oblivion we do buryThe incensing relics of it (..)
(RQ:Browne Christian Morals)
1797, (w), ''The Italian'', London: T. Cadell Jun. & W. Davies, Volume 2, Chapter 6, p. 184,http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004837677.0001.002
- It appeared, from (..) the ruins scattered distantly along its skirts, to be a part of the city entirely abandoned by the modern inhabitants to the reliques of its former grandeur.
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(RQ:Du Bois Souls of Black Folk)
Something old and outdated, possibly kept for sentimental reasons.
(RQ:Charlotte Bronte Jane Eyre) the imperfect light entering by their narrow casements showed bedsteads of a hundred years old; chests in oak or walnut, looking, with their strange carvings of palm branches and cherubs’ heads, like types of the Hebrew ark; rows of venerable chairs, high-backed and narrow; stools still more antiquated, on whose cushioned tops were yet apparent traces of half-effaced embroideries, wrought by fingers that for two generations had been coffin-dust. All these relics gave to the third storey of Thornfield Hall the aspect of a home of the past: a shrine of memory.
{{quote-journal|en|year=1991|journal=U.S. News & World Report|volume=116|issue=9-16|page=72
A part of the body of a saint, or an ancient religious object, kept for veneration.
(RQ:Webster Malfi)
(RQ:Smollett Roderick Random)
(RQ:Hume History) the duke, in order to support their drooping hopes, ordered a procession to be made with the reliques of St. Valori, and prayers to be said for more favourable weather.
(RQ:Wharton Age of Innocence)
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