Crossword-Solution: ORANTE
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| Word | Anagrams | |
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| ORANTE | anagram | ANTERO, ARENOT, ATERNO, ATONER, NEARTO, NORATE, NOTEAR, ORNATE, RENATO, TOEARN |
We have 2 clues for the answer “ORANTE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Praying figure (var.) | 1 answer |
| Praying figure | 3 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
AEETR
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with ORANTE (5)
Orante, we all know, lives a perfect life; Her thoughts are all of heaven; and I have heard That she condemns the company you keep.
The museum contains a Christian sarcophagus on the staircase, with an orante, a woman praying with uplifted hands in the midst, on the sides the striking of the rock and the multiplication of the loaves.
The fish, whose Greek name is formed by the initial letters of the titles of our Lord, was carved on the marble tablets and sarcophagi as the anagram of the Saviour; and an Orante, or female figure praying, was represented as the symbol of the Church.
These two figures, one on either side of a small table, on which are two dishes, one with a fish upon it and the other with bread, are supposed to represent our Lord after the Resurrection, and the Christian Church in the form of a woman, with the hands uplifted in the Oriental attitude of prayer, such as is usually called in the catacombs an Orante.
Christ enthroned in a vesica is supported by two angels; below is the Madonna as _orante_, surrounded by the Apostles.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, NYT.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1976–1984).