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sext

sext

9.9
A short church prayer said around noon
  • noun
  • /sɛkst/
  • Archaic
translation icon : sexta
  • The New York Times points out that Petraeus, General John Allen, and the women they love/sext with would never have been caught if there had been tighter digital privacy laws.

Examples

  • During our chapel service, the congregation gathered at noon to observe sext as part of the daily prayers.

  • We prayed seven times a day—vigils, lauds, terce, sext, none, vespers, and compline—to maintain our spiritual discipline.

  • The monk would make sure to ring the bell promptly at noon to announce the time for sext.

Surface Forms

sext singular
sexts plural

Etymology

Sext comes from a Latin word meaning 'sixth' and links to the English number six, because it was the 'sixth' church hour around noon. So sext means the prayer time at midday.