"kontakion" meaning in English

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          "ref": "2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 454:",
          "text": "The liturgical form of hymn which replaced the kontakion was the canon, a set of nine hymns.",
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          "ref": "1988, Milorad Pavić, translated by Christina Pribićević-Zorić, Dictionary of the Khazars, Vintage, published 1989, page 31:",
          "text": "When awakened, Kyr Avram sits in bed and, as if out of fear, sings troparia and contakia in honor of his ancestors, when the Serbian church has declared saints.",
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        {
          "word": "contakion"
        }
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  "word": "kontakion"
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