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Definition of Holy sepulchre

1. Noun. The sepulcher in which Christ's body lay between burial and resurrection.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Holy Sepulchre

Literary usage of Holy sepulchre

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

1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"To the right of the Sacred Tomb in the Basilica of the holy sepulchre is the ... holy sepulchre, KNIGHTS OF THE.—Neither the name of a founder nor a date of ..."

2. The Innocents Abroad; Or, The New Pilgrim's Progress: Being Some Account of by Mark Twain (1884)
"When one enters the Church of the holy sepulchre, the Sepulchre itself is the first thing he desires to see, and really is almost the first thing he does ..."

3. Greece Under the Romans by George Finlay (1907)
"in OBSERVATIONS ON THE SITE OF THE holy sepulchre It would give every Christian a sentiment of dissatisfaction, as well as of melancholy, ..."

4. The Works of Washington Irving by Washington Irving (1861)
"... of the holy sepulchre, recurred to his memory with peculiar force. The time had elapsed, but the vow remained unfulfilled, and the means to perform it ..."

5. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1902)
"... and Jerusalem, by the Franks—Deliverance of the holy sepulchre—Godfrey of Bouillon, Jirst King of Jerusalem—Institutions of the French or Latin Kingdom ..."

6. Haydn's Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information Relating to All Ages by Joseph Haydn, Benjamin Vincent (1889)
"... sepulchre to be the mosque of Omar, the " dome of "the Hock." The question is still undecided. The order of the holy sepulchre was founded by Godfrey of ..."

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