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Great Week
Great Week
noun
- Eastern Churches the week preceding Easter, the equivalent of Holy Week in the Western Church
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Word History and Origins
Origin of Great Week1
1650–60; translation of Late Greek megalḗ hebdomás
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Example Sentences
"Writ on Tuesday in the great week" (Easter week, March, 1429).
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Written on Tuesday of the great week of Easter, of the year 1429.
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At the close of the month came the great Week of Mourning, or Muharrem.
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These historic eight days of fighting and victory are known in Tyrolese history as "the great week."
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Many after-touches show us how the great week possessed for Holmes the same magic charm it held for Lowell.
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