Passion Sunday

American  

noun

1. the fifth Sunday in Lent, being the second week before Easter.

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Passion Sunday British  

noun

1. the fifth Sunday in Lent (the second Sunday before Easter), when Passiontide begins

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Etymology

Origin of Passion Sunday

Middle English word dating back to 1350–1400

Example Sentences

The private examination, concluding with that last answer about the banner, came to an end on the 17th March, the day before Passion Sunday.

From Jeanne D'Arc: her life and death by Oliphant, Mrs. (Margaret)

Against those who misuse passages of Scripture, and who pride themselves in finding one which seems to favour their error.—The chapter for Vespers, Passion Sunday, the prayer for the king.

From Pascal's Pensées by Pascal, Blaise

There was a silence until a well-informed little girl breathed through her nose that it was called Passion Sunday.

From The Altar Steps by MacKenzie, Compton

About Passion Sunday, the khan went before with his small houses only, leaving the great ones behind, and the monk and we followed.

From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 01 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time by Kerr, Robert

Thus the 6th Sunday is called Palm Sunday; the 5th, Passion Sunday.

From The American Church Dictionary and Cyclopedia by Miller, William James