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Three Hours

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noun

Roman Catholic Church.
  1. a religious observance practiced between noon and three o'clock on the afternoon of Good Friday.


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Three Hours by Rosamund Lupton A Somerset school is under siege in this tensely emotional thriller, unfolding over the titular three hours: ordinary heroes are revealed, as teachers and pupils are tested by extraordinary events.

From The Guardian Jun. 20, 2020

The Three Hours Devotion will include meditations, music and prayer throughout with Communion administered from the Reserved Sacrament during the third hour.

From Washington Post Apr. 11, 2014

“Spend An Entire Three Hours on a Greyhound Bus!” the brochures proclaimed.

From Washington Post

Sir Richard Blackmore was continuing the crusade against scapegrace wit—in the Preface to his Essays, 1717, he is explicitly severe upon Three Hours and its authors—and the battle was going his way.

From Three Hours after Marriage by John Arbuthnot

The intermitting of Three Hours should be most naturally read as suggesting that at least in the judgment of the managers its initial vogue had passed.

From Three Hours after Marriage by John Arbuthnot

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