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‖ Quarant' Ore|kwarant ˈore|
Also Quarantore.
[It., contraction of quaranta forty + ore, pl. of ora hour.]
= forty hours s.v. forty a. e.
1623Ven. Eng. College, Rome MS. Scritt. 29.5.1a. f.4, By the church doore, which by chaunce was open by reason that the Quarante Hore were celebrated there at the same tyme. 1839N. Wiseman Let. in P. Devine Life Fr. Ignatius of St. Paul (1866) iii. viii. 255 My idea was borrowed from my..friend, Charles Weld, and consisted in Quarant' Ore,..making the circuit of all England, so that by day and night the Adorable Sacrament might be worshipped through the year. 1859A. D. Hope St. Philip Neri v. 16 It was also the means of introducing into Rome, a.d. 1548, the devotion of the Quarant' Ore, which had been first practised in Milan a.d. 1534. 1890Gasquet & Bishop Edward VI & Bk. Common Prayer iv. 54 The devotions known as the benediction of the Blessed Sacrament and the Quarantore. 1923C. Mackenzie Parson's Progress xi. 135 If the authorities remonstrated with him for holding such a service as Creeping to the Cross on Good Friday, he remonstrated with them for allowing such vulgar innovations as the Stations of the Cross or the Devotion of the Quarant'ore. 1974Oxf. Dict. Chr. Ch. (ed. 2) 524/2 Forty hours' devotion (also known as the Quarant' Ore or Quarantore), a modern Catholic devotion in which the Blessed Sacrament is exposed..for for a period of c. forty hours, and the faithful pray before it by turns throughout this time. |