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Passion Week
[f. passion n. 1 + week; cf. med.L. hebdomada passionis, hebd. pœnalis (Du Cange).]
The week immediately before Easter, in which the Passion of Christ is commemorated, also (more recently) called Holy Week.
c1400Beryn 3804 Oppon a tuysday In the passion-woke, when men leven play, And vse more devosioune, fastyng & preyer, Then in othir tyme or seson of þe ȝeer. 1489Acc. Ld. High Treas. Sc. I. 151 Item, in Passion Wolk again Payce, for vj elne of smal braid clayth to be fut scheytis. 1530Palsgr. 252 Passyon weke, sepmaine penevse. 1560J. Daus tr. Sleidane's Comm. 334 b, On Maundy thursday in the passion weke. 1662Pepys Diary 24 Mar., I went to see if any play was acted, and I found none upon the post, it being Passion week. [Easter Sunday was 30 March.] 1706Phillips, Passion-Week, the Week next before the Festival of Easter. 1727–1812 [see Holy Week]. 1797Encycl. Brit. (ed. 3) X. 687/1 Maundy Thursday is the Thursday in Passion week. 1845S. Austin Ranke's Hist. Ref. II. 157 On Palm-Sunday no palms were strewed; and in Passion-Week the ceremony of laying down the cross and raising it again, was omitted. 1854Milman Lat. Chr. iv. iii. (1864) II. 246 Palm Sunday, the commencement of Passion week.
b. The fifth week in Lent, beginning with Passion Sunday.
1449Pecock Repr. 200 What is red..in the ympne Vexilla Regis prodeunt sungun in the Passion Weke in Lent.
1852Hook Ch. Dict. s.v., Some persons call the week, of which Passion Sunday is the first day, Passion Week; and the real Passion Week they call Holy Week. This is, however, a piece of pedantry, founded on a mistake. 1891[see Passion-tide.]. |
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