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
Example Sentences
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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
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
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
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
Brother Smith and I went to the Baptist prayer meeting, and afterwards, they insisted that I preach on Lord's day.
From The Story of a Life by Ellis, J. Breckenridge (John Breckenridge)
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