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Holy Week

noun

  1. the week preceding Easter Sunday.


Holy Week

noun

  1. the week preceding Easter Sunday


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Word History and Origins

Origin of Holy Week1

1700–10; translation of Italian settimana santa

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Example Sentences

A comparison of the four narratives clearly indicates the order of events upon the several days of the Holy Week.

But a free scope was allowed to their avarice, which was glutted, even in the holy week, by the pillage of Constantinople.

The Pope always goes there the last day of the Holy Week, and stays there all the summer.

The ceremonies of the Holy Week in Rome are a most solemn, and to most minds, affecting religious drama.

As it was, the air was thundery and ominous through all the solemn days of the Holy Week.

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