Word of the Day:
lection
What It Means
The act of reading.
A reading of a religious text; a lesson to be read in church etc.
Lection in Context
“This man […] came to dwell in our city, and here founded this holy house, and he hath edified us by his litanies and his lections of the Koran.”
Did You Know?
Borrowed from Old French lection, from Latin lēctiōnem, form of lēctiō, from legō (“to read; to gather”). Doublet of lesson.
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