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anagnosts

anagnosts is the plural of anagnost.

Meaning of anagnost

Noun

anagnost (plural anagnosts)

  1. (historical) Someone who reads aloud, especially who reads lessons, passages etc. during a church service.
    • Coming to the landing, I saw two cataphracts, an anagnost reading prayers, Master Gurloes, and a young woman.1980, Gene Wolfe, chapter XII, in The Shadow of the Torturer (The Book of the New Sun; 1), New York: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 111

Questions about anagnosts

What is anagnosts the plural of?
Anagnosts is the plural of anagnost.

Words near anagnosts in the dictionary

  1. anagnoristic
  2. anagnosasthenia
  3. anagnosasthenias
  4. anagnost
  5. Anagnostopoulos
  6. anagnosts
  7. anagoge
  8. anagoges
  9. anagogic
  10. anagogical
  11. anagogically

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