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- noun A life-size representation of the
crucifixion ofJesus Christ on a piece of raised ground - noun A
series of representations ofChrist ’sPassion in achurch - noun A strenuous experience
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Examples
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The word calvary is a Latin word meaning skull, or place of skulls.
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DeMint, you guys had your chance at a compromise, now the calvary is here.
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The calvary is still not here yet, but I have begun to hear the hooves and were almost a week out.
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The triumphal arch and ossuary are very inferior to St. Thégonnec, but the calvary is a magnificent monument, unequalled in Brittany, richly sculptured and ornamented.
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Just the same as before -- a little "calvary" at one end of the garden and a rough picture of a Madonna in an arbor, the long, echoing corridors spotless as the deck of a man-of-war, and the smiling faces making a very flower-garden of the community-room.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 099, March, 1876 Various
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It is especially in the large "calvary" and behind the altar that this atmosphere of ingenuousness is felt.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913
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Over two millennia, 'calvary' has come to mean an extreme experience of physical, men in Maguindanao Tuesday afternoon was recovered by members of the Moro National Liberation Front near their camp in Datu Odin Sinsuat
WN.com - Articles related to Media watchdog urges Arroyo to take firm stand on massacre case 2010
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Over two millennia, 'calvary' has come to mean an extreme experience of physical,
WN.com - Articles related to No credible govt action on massacre Asia HR group 2010
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Over two millennia, 'calvary' has come to mean an extreme experience of physical, men in Maguindanao Tuesday afternoon was recovered by members of the Moro National Liberation Front near their camp in Datu Odin Sinsuat
WN.com - Articles related to No credible govt action on massacre Asia HR group 2010
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Smith, the executive director, said he wants the fire department's "calvary" to respond to life-threatening emergencies.
RGJ.com - Latest News svoyles@rgj.com By Susan Voyles 2010
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