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Lord's day

American  

noun

  1. the, Sunday.


Lord's Day British  

noun

  1. the Christian Sabbath; Sunday

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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

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

Only nine Bibles could be found in the place, and upon the morning of the Lord's day only two persons left its precincts to worship God in His temple.

From The Man with the Book or, The Bible Among the People. by John Matthias Weylland

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

Ian MacRae is not a stereotypical member of the Lord's Day Observance Society.

From BBC Mar. 29, 2011

The next step is for the City Council to ask the Ontario parliament for legislation excluding Toronto from the blue laws of the Lord's Day Alliance Act.

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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