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Holy Week
noun
- the week preceding Easter Sunday.
Holy Week
noun
- 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.
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But a free scope was allowed to their avarice, which was glutted, even in the holy week, by the pillage of Constantinople.
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The Pope always goes there the last day of the Holy Week, and stays there all the summer.
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The ceremonies of the Holy Week in Rome are a most solemn, and to most minds, affecting religious drama.
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As it was, the air was thundery and ominous through all the solemn days of the Holy Week.
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