Definitions for good friday
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1. Good Fridaynoun

   Friday before Easter

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1. Good Fridaynoun

   The Friday before Easter Sunday, believed by Christians to be the day on which Christ was crucified.

2. Etymology: From good meaning holy

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1. Good Friday

   Good Friday is a Christian holiday commemorating the crucifixion of Jesus and his death at Calvary. It is observed during Holy Week as part of the Paschal Triduum. It is also known as Holy Friday, Great Friday, Great and Holy Friday (also Holy and Great Friday), and Black Friday.Members of many Christian denominations, including the Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, Lutheran, Anglican, Methodist, Oriental Orthodox, United Protestant and some Reformed traditions (including certain Continental Reformed, Presbyterian and Congregationalist churches), observe Good Friday with fasting and church services. In many Catholic, Lutheran, Anglican and Methodist churches, the Service of the Great Three Hours' Agony is held from noon until 3 pm, the time duration that the Bible records as darkness covering the land to Jesus' sacrificial death on the cross. Communicants of the Moravian Church have a Good Friday tradition of cleaning gravestones in Moravian cemeteries.The date of Good Friday varies from one year to the next in both the Gregorian and Julian calendars. Eastern and Western Christianity disagree over the computation of the date of Easter and therefore of Good Friday. Good Friday is a widely instituted legal holiday around the world, including in most Western countries and 12 U.S. states. Some predominantly Christian countries, such as Germany, have laws prohibiting certain acts such as dancing and horse racing, in remembrance of the somber nature of Good Friday.

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1. good friday

   Good Friday is a religious holiday observed primarily by Christians, commemorating the crucifixion of Jesus Christ and his death at Calvary. It is observed during Holy Week as part of the Paschal Triduum on the Friday preceding Easter Sunday. The holiday is also known as Holy Friday, Great Friday, and Black Friday. It is a day of mourning and solemnity, often marked by fasting and prayer.

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1. Good Friday

   Good Friday is a religious holiday observed primarily by Christians commemorating the crucifixion of Jesus Christ and his death at Calvary. The holiday is observed during Holy Week as part of the Paschal Triduum on the Friday preceding Easter Sunday, and may coincide with the Jewish observance of Passover. It is also known as Holy Friday, Great Friday, Black Friday, or Easter Friday, though the latter properly refers to the Friday in Easter week. Based on the details of the Canonical gospels, the Crucifixion of Jesus was most likely to have been on a Friday. The estimated year of the Crucifixion is AD 33, by two different groups, and originally as AD 34 by Isaac Newton via the differences between the Biblical and Julian calendars and the crescent of the moon. A third method, using a completely different astronomical approach based on a lunar Crucifixion darkness and eclipse model, points to Friday, 3 April AD 33.

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1. Good Friday

   the Friday before Easter, held sacred from early times by the Church in commemoration of the crucifixion of Christ, observed originally with fasting and prayer.

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1. Good Friday

   The Friday before Easter that is globally observed by Christians as the anniversary of the death of Jesus Christ. It is commemorated globally as the day Jesus Christ died for the sins of the whole world. -Emeasoba George

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   Submitted by emeasoba_g on March 30, 2018  

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1. good friday

   Read the full text of the Good Friday poem by Christina Georgina Rossetti on the Poetry.com website.

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1. • Christian Holy Day

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of good friday in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of good friday in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of good friday in a Sentence

1. Kevin McCarthy:

   I'm gon na look through it, we had an officer killed on Good Friday. If this commission is going to come forth to tell us how to protect this facility in the future, you want to make sure that in the scope you can look at all that.

2. Kevin Daley:

   They can take them if there are required services that take place during the school day, and Good Friday is regarded by Christians as certainly the most solemn of days of the church calendar.

3. Aloo Denish Obiero:

   The sorrow of Good Friday's sacrifice to the joy of Easter's dawn of victory is a timeless testament to life's journey from despair to hope, from darkness to light, from trial to triumph.

4. House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy:

   I think there's a lot of things that happened. It's not just on January 6, we had on Good Friday an officer get killed. I think if you're going to have a commission you should look at the whole broad spectrum. We just went through a whole summer of riots throughout this city. We should grasp that as well.

5. Liam Kennedy:

   The Good Friday Agreement is certainly one of those things where you can get real bipartisan buy-in in Washington, believe me, that’s a pretty unusual thing.

References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=good friday
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Good_Friday
3. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Friday
4. ^ ChatGPT
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5. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=good friday
6. ^ The Nuttall Encyclopedia
   https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/12342/pg12342-images.html#GoodFriday