BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER Definition & Meaning

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Book of Common Prayer

noun

the service book of the Church of England, essentially adopted but changed in details by other churches of the Anglican communion.

Book of Common Prayer

noun

the official book of church services of the Church of England, until 1980, when the Alternative Service Book was sanctioned

Book of Common Prayer

The book used in worship by the Anglican Communion . Its early versions, from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, were widely admired for the dignity and beauty of their language.

Book of Common Prayer

The book used in worship by the Anglican Communion ; it has had several revisions since the Reformation , and different versions exist for different countries.

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Notes

The Book of Common Prayer has had a strong effect on literature in English through such expressions as “Let him now speak, or else hereafter for ever hold his peace,” and “We have left undone those things which we ought to have done.”

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Afterward, Mrs. Washington spent an hour at her devotions, reading the Bible and the Book of Common Prayer used in the Episcopal Church.

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It is also, like “Play It as It Lays” and “A Book of Common Prayer,” a book with a lost or troubled daughter at its heart.

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Bishop Griswold had signaled his more moderate stance as early as 1976, when, as a priest from Pennsylvania, he helped revise the church’s main text, the Book of Common Prayer.

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Als, who started reading Didion in the 1970s, remembers being jolted by the first line of her 1977 novel, “A Book of Common Prayer”: “I will be her witness.”

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He read “A Book of Common Prayer” in 1977, when he was living with his brother in San Diego.

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