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Definition of Holy week
1. Noun. The week before Easter.
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
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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