English Explanatory Dictionary

Care Sunday

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. Synonym of Passion Sunday: the fifth Sunday in Lent.

Word forms

Care Sunday

Etymology

From Old English caru (“care”) in its sense of “sorrow, trouble, suffering,” used as a calque of Latin passio (“passion”) in its sense of “suffering”, in reference to the Passion of Christ preceding and during Jesus's crucifixion.

Synonyms

Passion Sunday

Related words

carcake carling Carling Sunday
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