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relic

Something old that is kept for personal, sentimental reasons. A part of the body of a saint, or a very old religious object, which is kept out of respect for the object.

relic

an antiquity that has survived from the distant past (= keepsake) something of sentimental value

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Forcing a mother to burn the one relic of her dead child.
This old relic?
This relic is worth much more than 1 00 cruzeiros.
She offered the armour in which she had been wounded as a relic.
Why, there's a fine old relic.
This jewel is a gift from my mother and it contains a fragment of a genuine relic.
It's a sacred relic.
This is her relic.
Thank you for sending her relic all the way.
With the help of my son, I arranged for the return of this sacred thing, this relic of Ancient Egypt.
I was watching a relic I had a hand in.
This casket must remain in your hands until Saint Brigitta herself lets you know how you must go on with your life and who must have the holy relic.
When she orders you, you must hand over the holy relic to the convent.
Relic.
I'll have no drunken relic holding up the discipline aboard my ship.
A most interesting relic, Sir Henry of Neolithic man.
These gigantic relic shrines, tower to heaven as its holy symbols.
I've watched that relic for two years now.
When you write your story about us, compare me to one of these homes boarded up, a thing of the past, a relic to be sold for taxes.
The one who keeps his sister locked up like a holy relic?
The relic of a lost civilization. - Lost? - The Malteks.
A relic of barbarism.
And now, dear Mr. Warren, after receiving your kind acceptance of our invitation to speak at our convention, we decided unanimously to just surprise you in advance with the most treasured relic in our little museum.
It's considered as a relic, you understand?
Oh, that old relic. - Relic?
There, you get out of that relic of Aunt Renie's, and I'II get the fire started.
A relic of the past. But nowadays, you've got to look to the future.
The one who keeps his sister under lock as if she were a relic?
This relic is worth much more than 100 cruzeiros.
It's a dilapidated old relic!
A relic of the old world.
What is it, a relic?
A relic from the luxurious days was sell off in bad circumstances. In order to buy a car in poor condition.

News and current affairs

Containment is hardly a relic of the Cold War.
We could start, for example, with the United Nations, which, in its current form, is a relic of the situation shortly after the end of World War II.
The convention of not naming rape accusers is a relic of the Victorian period, when rape and other sex crimes were being codified and reported in ways that prefigure our own era.
From the American perspective, Europe is less a model than a historical relic.
Every night, the parade of stars up the red carpet, flanked by photographers, played out like a relic of a more ritualistic time.
The annual Gridiron Club Dinner in Washington, where the president is lampooned by the press, is a relic of this custom.
On the other hand, the Clinton-Hashimoto Declaration of April 1996 affirmed that the US-Japan security treaty, rather than being a Cold War relic, would provide the basis for a stable and prosperous East Asia.
However, thanks to a simple but ingenious innovation by an emerging bioscience company, those numbers could become a relic of the past, like mortality from smallpox and bubonic plague.
The Halki Seminary, opened in 1844, is a relic from that bygone age of pluralism.
The nation-state may be a relic bequeathed to us by the French Revolution, but it is all that we have.
Some people - in both countries - viewed the security alliance as a Cold War relic to be discarded.
It is a historic relic, bust but still bragging.

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