sign of the cross
Noun

sign of the cross

  1. (Christianity) A gesture of the hand moving over the front of one's body in the shape of a cross made as part of ritual or to invoke divine protection.
Related terms Translations
  • French: signe de croix
  • German: Kreuzzeichen; Bekreuzigung
  • Italian: segno della croce
  • Portuguese: sinal da cruz
  • Russian: кре́стное зна́мение
  • Spanish: santiguamiento, señal de la cruz



This text is extracted from the Wiktionary and it is available under the CC BY-SA 3.0 license | Terms and conditions | Privacy policy 0.004
Offline English dictionary