precious blood
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.26 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
2
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
The blood of Jesus Christ, especially in the form it is believed to take in the consecrated wine of the Eucharist.
Example Sentences
- "As the month of May is dedicated to the Blessed Virgin, and the month of June to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, so the present month is dedicated to the Precious Blood."
- "This was almost a parody of the procession conducted by Henry III when he took the Precious Blood to the raised shrine of Edward the Confessor."
- "His palms were anointed with chrism and the oil of catechumens; he alone among laymen could now handle the chalice and drink of the Precious Blood at Mass."
Etymology
Calque of Ecclesiastical Latin pretiōsus sanguis.
Inflected Forms
the Precious Blood (canonical)