Douay Version
- noun
- /ˈduːeɪ ˈvɜːrʒən/
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Versión Douay
- She compared passages from the Douay Version and the King James Version to study their differences.
Examples
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The Douay Version was used as the standard English Catholic Bible for centuries.
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Many Catholic families in England owned a Douay Version of the Bible.
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The Douay Version is a classic.
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Many people prefer the Douay Version for its traditional language.
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Many Catholic families in England owned a Douay Version of the Bible.
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She compared passages from the Douay Version and the King James Version to study their differences.
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The Douay Version was used as the standard English Catholic Bible for centuries.
Synonyms
An English translation of the Catholic Bible made by scholars at Douay and Rheims around 1600
An English Bible translated from the Latin Vulgate by Roman Catholic scholars
An English version of the Catholic Latin Bible made by scholars in the late 1500s and early 1600s
An English translation of the Bible made from the Latin Vulgate by Catholic scholars around 1600
An English translation of the Latin Bible used by Catholics from the late 1500s
Surface Forms
Morphology
Douay + version
The noun 'version' clearly signals an edition or translation and the proper name 'Douay' marks it as an edition associated with that place/name, so a learner who knows both constituents can infer it is a particular edition called the Douay version. However, the full, specific sense — that it is the historical Catholic English translation of the Latin Vulgate (Douay–Rheims) — depends on cultural/historical knowledge and is not predictable from the words alone.
Etymology
The noun Douay Version comes from the town of Douay in France, where English Catholic scholars who had to leave England translated the Latin Bible into English. Because the translation was made there, English-speaking Catholics called it the Douay Version and used it as their 'standard English Catholic Bible'.
