MEANING
A religious rite understood to convey or express sacred grace, especially in Christianity.
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Words that belong together
- receive a sacrament
- administration of a sacrament
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The priest prepared the sacrament in the dim side chapel.
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- sacrament
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Usage notes
Primary category: horror / gothic. Forms: Singular sacrament; plural sacraments. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Commonness: moderately common.
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