| 单词 | holy wednesday |
| 释义 | > as lemmasHoly Wednesday Holy Wednesday n. the Wednesday before Easter. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > liturgical year > feast, festival > specific Christian festivals > Holy Week > [noun] > Wednesday in Good Wednesday1471 Holy Wednesday1613 Spy Wednesday1842 1613 W. B. tr. S. Michaelis Admirable Hist. Penitent Woman i. 395 Vpon holy Wednesday in the morning Monsieur de Segoyer..did priuatly and a-part powre out his prayers to God in behalfe of her that was possessed. 1699 P. Gordon Geogr. Anatomized (ed. 2) ii. iii. 296 The Annual Resurrection of many dead Bones on Holy Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday. 1719 J. Gordon Acct. Superstitious Ceremonies & Wicked Pract. Church of Rome iii. 40 (heading) Of the Ceremonies of Holy Wednesday and Thursday. 1772 T. Nugent tr. J. F. de Isla Hist. Friar Gerund II. vi. iii. 498 Holy Wednesday. On this day there is no sermon. After mass in the afternoon the preacher goes out with the magistracy to beg eggs and fish. 1845 Dublin Rev. June 425 On Holy Wednesday at the words in the Passion, ‘et velum templi scissum est’, it [the veil] is torn open in two parts. 1939 Hispania 22 410 On Holy Wednesday the most popular confessor in Buenos Aires listens all day to confessions; as he consoles and exhorts, no one suspects his own struggle to conquer desire. 2000 K. B. Westerfield Tucker in A. Hastings et al. Oxf. Compan. Christian Thought 184/1 Veneration of the cross, tenebrae (a service of shadows, held also on Holy Wednesday and Thursday), and dramatic and musical re-enactments of the story figure among the practices Christians have employed. < as lemmas |
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