"mantras" in the noun sense
1. mantra
a commonly repeated word or phrase
"she repeated `So pleased with how its going' at intervals like a mantra"
2. mantra
Sanskrit) literally a `sacred utterance' in Vedism one of a collection of orally transmitted poetic hymns
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