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Definition of "kyrie" []

  • A short prayer or petition including the phrase kyrie, meaning "Lord, have mercy". (noun)
  • : A setting of the traditional kyrie text to music for a Mass. (noun)

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Use "kyrie" in a sentence
  • "They weren't sure, but they knew it would be called "Operation Vidal-kyrie" and would involve putting his hair somewhere near an open flame."
  • "I plagiarised a kyrie from the andante of Mahler's 6th for a mass many moons ago and the people loved it - will get my old keyboard out and send you the music...really easy to learn but it sounds like a kyrie should."
  • "Masses were quite a production then, clouds of incense, kyrie eleisons and mea culpas in Latin with a conglomeration of acolytes."