Definition of Holy Week

1. Noun. The week before Easter.

Exact synonyms: Passion Week
Generic synonyms: Hebdomad, Week
Group relationships: Church Calendar, Ecclesiastical Calendar

Definition of Holy Week

1. Proper noun. The week preceding Easter containing Palm Sunday, Spy Wednesday, Holy Thursday and Good Friday. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Holy Week

Holy Rollers
Holy Roman Emperor
Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II
Holy Roman Empire
Holy Sacrament
Holy Scripture
Holy See
Holy Sepulcher
Holy Sepulchre
Holy Spirit
Holy Thursday
Holy Trinity
Holy War Warriors
Holy Wednesday
Holy Week (current term)
Holy Writ
Holy Year
Holy of Holies
Holyhead
Holynesses
Holyrood
Holzknecht
Holzknecht unit
Homalomyia
Homans
Homans' sign
Homaridae
Homarus americanus
Homarus capensis

Literary usage of Holy Week

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Overland Monthly by Bret Harte (1869)
"THE Holy Week in Rome, and indeed throughout the Continent, was preceded this ... But the weather has carried me to the end of the Holy Week before I had ..."

2. Publications by Folklore Society (Great Britain) (1897)
"Holy Week OBSERVANCE IN THE ABRUZZI. (Vol. vi. p. 57.) I AVAIL myself of this opportunity to ask you to contradict a statement made by the Rev. ..."

3. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1909)
"The custom of celebrating Holy Week was in no way uniform in the first decades of the Reformation. ... A ncient English Holy Week Ceremonial, London. 1897. ..."

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