Passion Week


noun
  1. the week preceding Easter; Holy Week.

  2. the week before Holy Week, beginning with Passion Sunday.

Origin of Passion Week

1
Middle English word dating back to 1350–1400

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How to use Passion Week in a sentence

  • It is Passion-week, too; and that's not a week to play the heathen.

    A Terrible Temptation | Charles Reade
  • In Passion-week pilgrims come to pray at the several "stations" along the route to the figurative Calvary at the end of the Via.

    Spanish Vistas | George Parsons Lathrop
  • And thus Passion-week tells all men in what true goodness lies.

    Westminster Sermons | Charles Kingsley
  • He who has learnt the lesson of Passion-week, and practises it; he and he only is a good man.

    Westminster Sermons | Charles Kingsley
  • Shrove-Tuesday was marked by a ball, and Passion-week by promenades and concerts.

    Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte, Complete | Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne

British Dictionary definitions for Passion Week

Passion Week

noun
  1. the week between Passion Sunday and Palm Sunday

  2. (formerly) Holy Week; the week before Easter

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