Calvary
noun
Golgotha, the place where Jesus was crucified.
Calvaries
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pluralof Calvary.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Dangerous passions of pride, hatred and selfishness are enthroned in our lives; truth lies prostrate on the rugged hills of nameless Calvaries.
From Time Magazine Archive
Ascending the mountain by a well-beaten path, we passed a number of "Calvaries" filled with tattered saints and Virgins, and soon came upon the rim of a flattened bowl quite clasped by the mountains.
From The Glaciers of the Alps Being a narrative of excursions and ascents, etc. by John Tyndall
God Christ—along the weary lands, What lone invisible Calvaries are set, What drooping brows with dews of anguish wet, What faint outspreading of unwilling hands, Bound to a viewless cross with viewless bands.
From Playing With Fire by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
Long their gaze clung, filled with unspeakable things, things that were high as Heaven itself, that pass only between men clean of heart on the Calvaries of earth.
From The Maid of the Whispering Hills by Vingie E. (Vingie Eve) Roe
We passed by the Calvaries which keep guard over the Meuse villages, a few trees gathered round the cross.
From Letters of a Soldier 1914-1915 by André Chevrillon
