Etymology

preces

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Today it means: The alternate responsive petitions, as the versicles and suffrages, between the clergyman and the congregation in liturgical worship. Full definition →

Latin precēs
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  1. Latin · borrowed fromprecēs“prayers”
  2. English todaypreces

From Latin precēs (“prayers”).

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