Passion Week
Americannoun
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the week preceding Easter; Holy Week.
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the week before Holy Week, beginning with Passion Sunday.
noun
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the week between Passion Sunday and Palm Sunday
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(formerly) Holy Week; the week before Easter
Etymology
Origin of Passion Week
Middle English word dating back to 1350–1400
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Faulkner has stayed close to the Passion Week.
From Time Magazine Archive
The enormous wooden tabernacle erected every Passion Week over the great Discoverer's son, to reach the very arches of the vaults overhead, is as hideous as the inscription is touching.
From Cathedrals of Spain by John A.
Not all the brothers feel bound to perform this penitential service every Passion Week, and, indeed, not all the brotherhoods.
From Spanish Highways and Byways by Katharine Lee Bates
Passion Sunday, the fifth Sunday in Lent, which is succeeded by what is called the Passion Week.
From The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge by P. Austin Nuttall
The Sistine Chapel is associated in the minds of all Roman sojourners with the great ceremonies of the Church, but especially with the Miserere of Passion Week.
From Walks in Rome by Augustus J. C. Hare
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