What does the word shrine mean?

    Part of speech: verb transitive

  • To enshrine.

Usage examples for shrine

  1. But if you are in a position to despise a sum which would make me happy, offer up a foolish vanity on the shrine of friendship, take the thousand sequins, and lend them to me, and let my wife have the dress, for of course he will give it her." – The Memoires of Casanova, Complete The Rare Unabridged London Edition Of 1894, plus An Unpublished Chapter of History, By Arthur Symons by Jacques Casanova de Seingalt
  2. For there will be for you a soldier's shrine. – The Way of the Gods by John Luther Long
  3. And Balder's shrine was gone; both destroyed by fire and sword. – Northland Heroes by Florence Holbrook
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