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Kyrie eleison

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Kyrie e·le·i·son  (-l-sn, -sn)
n.
The Kyrie.

[Late Latin Krie eleison; see Kyrie.]


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There also is a quasi-improvisatory section in which the Kyrie eleison also figures.
I like the Greek version the liturgy sometimes uses--Kyrie eleison; Christe eleison; Kyrie eleison.
But it wasn't easy to confine my urge to tell my son about that lovely word omnipotens, and to point out that the only Greek surviving in the Latin liturgy was Kyrie eleison, Christe eleison.
 
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