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Definition of Day of the week

1. Noun. Any one of the seven days in a week.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Day Of The Week

Literary usage of Day of the week

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

1. The Works of George Fox by George Fox (1831)
"The first man Adam was made on the sixth day of the week; and Christ, ... Christ arose from the dead on the first day of the week ; and they that do believe ..."

2. An exposition of the Creed by John Pearson, Edward Burton (1857)
"first day of the week, therefore it must necessarily follow that he died and ... Christ then, who rose upon the first day of the week, (as is confessed by ..."

3. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"... ready to hand, the means for ascertaining the day of the week in any assigned year, and more particularly the age of the moon. The age of the moon, ..."

4. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1911)
"Apollo never was worshiped on the first day of the week, nor on the seventh day of the week, but upon the seventh day of the month, which was his festal day ..."

5. Report of the Proceedings by Church congress (1888)
"(2) That the observance of the first day of the week is a witness to the truth of Christianity. (3) That the Sabbath was not made for any particular nation ..."

6. Education by Project Innovation (Organization) (1894)
"Hence the month came in on Wednesday, the 4th day of the week ; and, since the 1st, 8th, 15th, 22nd and 29th days of any month fall on the same day of the ..."

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