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
Example Sentences
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Faulkner has stayed close to the Passion Week.
From Time Magazine Archive
On Easter even we were invited to the palace to witness their celebration of the royal victories, held according to immemorial custom during Passion Week.
From The Highlands of Ethiopia by William Cornwallis Harris
Duncannon, whom I saw afterwards, seemed to be of the same opinion, that it would be best not to sit in Passion Week.
From The Greville Memoirs A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV and King William IV, Vol. II by Henry Reeve
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
In 1784 he published, with an Italian title-page, the music annually performed in the pope's chapel at Rome during Passion Week.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" by Various
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