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
These rolls were kept in the house of God, in a box or chest called an ark, and were brought out and read to those who came to the church on the Lord's day.
From Young Folks' Bible in Words of Easy Reading The Sweet Stories of God's Word in the Language of Childhood by Pollard, Josephine
Faithful observance of the Sabbath, or Lord's Day, is embedded in the culture of Lewis and Harris.
From BBC ● Nov. 16, 2024
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
In 1920 Dr. Steele established a church farm in the country, scandalized the Lord's Day Alliance by instituting Sunday "Pray & Play" services blending worship and baseball.
From Time Magazine Archive
‘Yep. It always was the old-fashioned way to start Lord’s Day at sunset on Saturday and I’ve decided to re-establish the habit in my house.’
From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes
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