Lord's day
noun
the, Sunday.
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Lord's Day
Lord's Daynounthe Christian Sabbath; Sunday
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Etymology
Origin of Lord's day
Middle English word dating back to 1175–1225
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Today, on the Lord’s day, all of us stand united in prayer with the people of Baton Rouge, with the police officers who’ve been wounded, and with the grieving families of the fallen.
From New York Times ● Jul. 17, 2016
In Israel, the beaches were crowded, food was being cooked, and a modern government transacted business as usual, but in the house of Zvi Rabin-sohn, the Lord's day was being kept.
From Time Magazine Archive
Sunday is the Lord's day; sports, cinema and TV are forsworn for lengthy sermons of a dominee at the local church.
From Time Magazine Archive
Where houses were, where windows stared, where gutters ran, were people—sleeping now, invisible, private, in the heavy darknesses of these houses, while the Lord’s day broke outside.
From "Go Tell It on the Mountain" by James Baldwin
He had often absented himself from mass on the Lord's day, and saints' day: and had trifled with other religious observances, which he enumerated with scrupulous fidelity.
From The Cloister and the Hearth A Tale of the Middle Ages by Reade, Charles
A Christian, he told his employers that he couldn’t deliver packages on the Lord’s Day.
From Washington Times ● Apr. 17, 2023
It brought him into conflict with the Lord's Day Observance Society, now known as Day One, which fought to maintain Sunday restrictions.
From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2013
Ian MacRae is not a stereotypical member of the Lord's Day Observance Society.
From BBC ● Mar. 29, 2011
The Canadian Lord's Day Act is a Sunday-observance law that makes Canada on a Sabbath day the dullest place in the world.
From Time Magazine Archive
‘Yes,’ said Johnny, thinking of how he had ruined it upon a Lord’s Day.
From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes
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