Passion Week
Americannoun
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the week preceding Easter; Holy Week.
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the week before Holy Week, beginning with Passion Sunday.
noun
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the week between Passion Sunday and Palm Sunday
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(formerly) Holy Week; the week before Easter
Etymology
Origin of Passion Week
Middle English word dating back to 1350–1400
Example Sentences
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Faulkner has stayed close to the Passion Week.
From Time Magazine Archive
He was oppressed by the sense of excommunication that brooded over the Abbey, and on the Saturday of Passion Week the versicles and responses of the proper Compline had a dreadful irony.
From The Altar Steps by MacKenzie, Compton
The Sistine Chapel is associated in the minds of all Roman sojourners with the great ceremonies of the Church, but especially with the Miserere of Passion Week.
From Walks in Rome by Hare, Augustus J. C.
Not all the brothers feel bound to perform this penitential service every Passion Week, and, indeed, not all the brotherhoods.
From Spanish Highways and Byways by Bates, Katharine Lee
"In Lord Kenyon's house," a wit exclaimed, "all the year through it is Lent in the kitchen, and Passion Week in the Parlor."
From A Book About Lawyers by Jeaffreson, John Cordy
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