rosary

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Rosary beads

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  • IPA: /ˈroʊzəri/

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rosary (plural rosaries)

  1. A series of prayers, usually made up of five, fifteen, or twenty decades of Hail Marys, each decade beginning with Our Father and ending with a Glory Be to the Father, sometimes including other prayers used in Roman Catholicism, and the Anglican, Lutheran, and Old Catholic churches.
  2. A string of beads used in counting the prayers said in a rosary.
  3. (Should we delete(+) this sense?) A string of beads used in praying by members of some religions or denominations other than Roman Catholicism such as the Anglican Church

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