Holy Hour

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noun

RC Church an hour set aside for prayer and reflection

(not capitals) Irish informal a period during the afternoon when public houses are obliged to close by law

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Words nearby Holy Hour

Holy Father, Holy Ghost, Holy Grail, holy grass, Holyhead, Holy Hour, Holy Innocents' Day, Holy Island, Holy Joe, Holy Land, holy mackerel

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How to use Holy Hour in a sentence

So here I am in my requisite Lululemon pants, grunting along to an old hip-hop song at a most ungodly hour.
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The Via Dolorosa ends at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, and is marked by nine stations of the cross.
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An hour later, he scored a second flight to Johannesburg for $380.
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He was released within the hour without a bond on his own recognizance.
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“You were going to work your way into my marriage and you were going to call its new three-way shape holy” the narrator recounts.
A Novel Nearly Impossible to Review|Nicholas Mancusi|December 28, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The night wore on, and the clock downstairs was striking the hour of two when she suddenly awakened.
The Homesteader|Oscar Micheaux
The sound of my step shall make your heart jump; a look from me shall make you dumb for an hour.
Checkmate|Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Words are often everywhere as the minute-hands of the soul, more important than even the hour-hands of action.
Pearls of Thought|Maturin M. Ballou
After an hour, however, he reached this decision: He would not go to or call up Mrs. Merley.
The Homesteader|Oscar Micheaux
It was the darkest hour of twilight, when there was just enough of gleam from the lurid sky, to shew the outline of objects.
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