noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
holy
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Originally this symbolic seat of power contained holy relics .
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Gripping the key in his pocket as if it were a holy relic , he took his first step into the world.
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To me there is no such thing as a holy relic or place.
sacred
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Much later, the perehera was adopted by the Buddhists to display their most sacred relic .
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They were thus especially suitable to guard sacred relics and great sanctuaries.
■ VERB
contain
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Inside the fortress is an interesting old church containing Moorish relics .
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In addition to their wild natural beauty, the moors contain interesting ancient relics and sites that are well worth investigating.
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It contains some interesting relics , including the door of the condemned cell from the old Calton jail.
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In the church a carved stone shrine was erected to contain the saint's relics .
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It contained relics , and when melted down in the twelfth century yielded 500 marks of silver and thirty of gold.
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The round tower looking uncommonly like a lighthouse or a telescope, contains relics of the hero of Trafalgar.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Civil War relics
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the sacred relics of John the Baptist
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The town is a relic from California's gold rush.
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The treaty is now a Cold War relic .
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Voters passed a bill to remove a law that is a relic of the state's racist past.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He received it as if it were a precious relic a saint had just blessed, and folded it carefully.
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It was true he had grown out of it now, but it was the beloved relic of his youth.
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Like so many villages in the Mani, Vátheia is a ghostly relic .
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Once viewed as a relic , continental drift and seafloor spreading evolved into the modern concept of plate tectonics.
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The relic reposes in a glass-fronted reliquary beneath a side altar of the same church in which it was first interred.
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The relic was found in exactly the place indicated.
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The latter's relics rest on the main altar.