Monstrance

Definition: Monstrance

Monstrance

Noun

1. Proof by a process of argument or a series of proposition proving an asserted conclusion.

2. (Roman Catholic Church) a vessel (usually of gold or silver) in which the consecrated Host is exposed for adoration.

Date "monstrance" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1891. (references)

Etymology: Monstrance \Mon"strance\, noun. [from Late Latin expression monstrantia, from the Latin expression monstrare to show: compare to Old French expression monstrance. See Monster.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonym: Monstrance

Synonym: demonstration (n). (additional references)

Crosswords: Monstrance

English words defined with "monstrance": Ostensory. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Monstrance" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

Czech (pyx).

Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Church of Our Lady of Victory, Pine and William Sts., New York City. Altar monstrance. Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Title	Author	Quote
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man	Joyce, James	Perhaps they had stolen a monstrance to run away with it and sell it somewhere.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Monstrance" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 77.78% of the time. "Monstrance" is used about 9 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	77.78%	7	133,076
Noun (proper)	22.22%	2	245,945
Total	100.00%	9	N/A

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "monstrance"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		dhuratëdhënëse. (various references)

Arabic		‏وعاء القربان المقدس. (various references)

Bulgarian		дарохранителница (ostensory, pyx). (various references)

Danish		monstrans. (various references)

Dutch		monstrans. (various references)

Esperanto		hostimontrilo. (various references)

French		ostensoir. (various references)

German		monstranz. (various references)

Greek		ιεροφυλάκιο καθολικήσ εκκλησίασ, αρτοφόριο (pix, pyx). (various references)

Hungarian		szentségtartó (pyx, tabernacle). (various references)

Italian		ostensorio (ostensory). (various references)

Manx		taishbynag. (various references)

Pig Latin		onstrancemay

Portuguese		enorme (big, bloodcurdling, cursed, deuced, enormous, enormously, gargantuan, giggle, gross, howsoever, huge, immense, large, mammoth, measureless, monstrous, monumental, mountebank, prodigious, rousing, stupendous, swingeing, terrific, thumping, thundering, tremendous, unco, unconscionable, untold, walloping, whacking, whopping), custódia (charge, custody, detainer, keeping, safekeeping, safety, ward). (various references)

Romanian		monstranţã, chivot (shrine). (various references)

Russian		дароносица (pyx). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		predmet obožavanja. (various references)

Spanish		ostensorio, custodia (custody, keeping, ostensory, safekeeping, ward). (various references)

Swedish		monstrans. (various references)

Ukrainian		дароносиця. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "monstrance": monstrances. (additional references)
	Words ending with "monstrance": remonstrance. (additional references)
	Words containing "monstrance": remonstrances. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words rhyming with "monstrance" (pronounced 'Mon"strance'): remonstrance. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-e-m-n-n-o-r-s-t"
	-1 letter: ornaments.
	-2 letters: ancestor, contemns, enactors, monerans, monstera, montanes, onstream, ornament, remnants, resonant, romances, sonarmen, tonearms.
	-3 letters: ancones, atoners, canners, canters, cantons, cantors, carnets, cartons, coarsen, coaster, coaters, comates, connate, conners, consent, contemn, contras, corneas, cornets, cratons, enactor, enamors, macrons, maestro, manners, mannose, martens, matrons, mentors, moaners, moneran, monster, montane, narcose, nascent, natrons, nectars.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-e-m-n-n-o-r-s-t"
	+1 letter: monstrances.
	+2 letters: anticonsumer, centimorgans, countermands, nomenclators, recombinants, remonstrance.
	+3 letters: anticonsumers, encroachments, nomenclatures, remonstrances, unimportances.
	+4 letters: commensuration, counterdemands, documentarians, encouragements, incommensurate, macronutrients, nonsymmetrical, recombinations, recontaminates, recriminations, triamcinolones.
	+5 letters: commensurations, conglomerations, contemporaneous, decontaminators, econometricians, intercomparison, monocrystalline, neoconservatism, nonrecombinants, pronunciamentos, recommendations, reconfirmations.
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