shrine

[Shrine]

Set up some candles and a photograph of someone important in your life in the corner of a room where you spend time reflecting silently, and you've created a shrine.

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A case, box, or receptacle, especially one in which are deposited sacred relics, as the bones of a saint.

Noun
a place of worship hallowed by association with some sacred thing or person

Verb
enclose in a shrine; "the saint''s bones were enshrined in the cathedral"


n.
A case, box, or receptacle, especially one in which are deposited sacred relics, as the bones of a saint.

n.
Any sacred place, as an altar, tromb, or the like.

n.
A place or object hallowed from its history or associations; as, a shrine of art.

v. t.
To enshrine; to place reverently, as in a shrine.


Shrine

Shrine , n. [OE. schrin, AS. scr'c6n, from L. scrinium a case, chest, box.] 1. A case, box, or receptacle, especially one in which are deposited sacred relics, as the bones of a saint. 2. Any sacred place, as an altar, tromb, or the like.
Too weak the sacred shrine guard.
3. A place or object hallowed from its history or associations; as, a shrine of art.

Shrine

Shrine, v. t. To enshrine; to place reverently, as in a shrine. "Shrined in his sanctuary." Milton.

A case, box, or receptacle, especially one in which are deposited sacred relics, as the bones of a saint.

To enshrine; to place reverently, as in a shrine.

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Usage Examples

I remember getting this scrapbook that this girl made, that I actually gave to my mom to hold onto because she has a 'Twilight' shrine in their house in Florida. It was just this scrapbook of me, starting with 'Twilight,' and the whole progression of me and my career throughout that, and other stuff that I had done in between.

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