Forty Hours

American  

noun

1. a Roman Catholic devotion in which the Blessed Sacrament is exposed for veneration for 40 hours by the churches of a diocese sequentially for two-day periods.

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Example Sentences

She’s even gone down to working only forty hours a week instead of her usual sixty.

From Literature

Forty hours later, Sparrow was in Kazakhstan.

From Seattle Times

Forty hours into the game, it is clear that most of its content remains unseen.

From New York Times

Pocker says he puts more than forty hours of work into the account every week and has spent hundreds of dollars on camera equipment, lights and editing software.

From Los Angeles Times

For a good “two and forty hours,” she will seem dead, he tells her, “and then awake as from a pleasant sleep.”

From New York Times