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Lection   Listen
noun
Lection  n.  
1.
(Eccl.) A lesson or selection, especially of Scripture, read in divine service.
2.
A reading; a variation in the text. "We ourselves are offended by the obtrusion of the new lections into the text."





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"Lection" Quotes from Famous Books



... kine ob a fool, an' I sticks ter dat. You know we didn't hab all dese low places in slave times. An' what is dey fer, but to get the people's money. An' its a shame how dey do sling de licker 'bout 'lection times." ...
— Iola Leroy - Shadows Uplifted • Frances E.W. Harper
... while seated at supper with her hostess, the blacksmith's wife, it came to Miss Mary to ask, demurely, if her husband ever got drunk. "Abner," responded Mrs. Stidger reflectively—"let's see! Abner hasn't been tight since last 'lection." Miss Mary would have liked to ask if he preferred lying in the sun on these occasions, and if a cold bath would have hurt him; but this would have involved an explanation, which she did not then care to give. So she contented herself with ...
— Short Story Classics (American) Vol. 2 • Various


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