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Definition of Good friday
1. Noun. Friday before Easter.
Definition of Good friday
1. Proper noun. The Friday before Easter Sunday, believed by Christians to be the day on which Christ was crucified. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Good Friday
Literary usage of Good friday
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"There is, perhaps, no office in the whole liturgy so peculiar, so interesting,
so composite, so dramatic as the office and ceremonial of good friday. ..."
2. Holy-days and Holidays: A Treasury of Historical Material, Sermons in Full by Edward Mark Deems (1906)
"The events of that first good friday, which the Church celebrates annually, ...
In the early centuries, on good friday "the customary acclamations and ..."
3. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1909)
"In the Roman Catholic Church good friday is not a holiday, and therefore the ...
The liturgical name of good friday, especially among the Latins, ..."
4. The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. by James Boswell (1901)
"THE LIFE OF SAMUEL JOHNSON, LL.D. CHAPTER I. 1778. good friday—Bad ... being Good
Friday, I waited on Johnson, as usual. I observed at breakfast, ..."
5. A Treatise of the Law of Bills of Exchange, Promissory Notes, Bank-notes and by John Barnard Byles, George Sharswood (1874)
"An Act for declaring the Law in relation to Bills of Exchange, and Promissory
Notes becoming payable on good friday or Christmas Day. ..."
6. The Book of Easter by William Croswell Doane (1910)
"In Suffolk plain rice boiled in milk is considered the orthodox dish for Good
Friday. In nearly all the Sussex villages not only boys but grown-up and even ..."
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