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shrīn(e
n.
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shrine
59 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) A repository in which a holy object or the relics of a saint are kept, a reliquary, shrine; also, a richly built and decorated tomb for a saint; (b)
ben in shrin
, to lie in a shrine, be enshrined…
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