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[ʃrʌɪn], (Noun)
Definitions:
- a place regarded as holy because of its associations with a divinity or a sacred person or relic, marked by a building or other construction
(e.g: the medieval pilgrim route to the shrine of St James)
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Origin
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Old English scrīn ‘cabinet, chest, reliquary’, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch schrijn and German Schrein, from Latin scrinium ‘chest for books’
[ʃrʌɪn], (Verb)
Definitions:
- enshrine
(e.g: a goddess shrined in every tree)
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Origin
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Old English scrīn ‘cabinet, chest, reliquary’, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch schrijn and German Schrein, from Latin scrinium ‘chest for books’
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