Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
washing of feet , under foot.
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Examples
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✒ At the wake, held in another part of the cathedral, there were instructions for the solemn Maundy Thursday ritual of foot-washing.
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No need for all that foot-washing this time around!
Did You Know? Fun Facts about Flaggish Things (for Flag Day) 2010
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Some speculate that these new Jesuses will be less focused on inspiring sermons, parables and foot-washing, and will instead be pushing a platform of slithering, swallowing things whole, and molting.
Carol Hartsell: Jesus Coils Around Me and Tightens Until I Can't Breathe and Then Eats Me, This I Know Carol Hartsell 2010
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Some speculate that these new Jesuses will be less focused on inspiring sermons, parables and foot-washing, and will instead be pushing a platform of slithering, swallowing things whole, and molting.
Carol Hartsell: Jesus Coils Around Me and Tightens Until I Can't Breathe and Then Eats Me, This I Know Carol Hartsell 2010
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This hospitable foot-washing, by the by, was generally done by women or slaves.
Beginner’s Grace Kate Braestrup 2010
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This hospitable foot-washing, by the by, was generally done by women or slaves.
Beginner’s Grace Kate Braestrup 2010
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This hospitable foot-washing, by the by, was generally done by women or slaves.
Beginner’s Grace Kate Braestrup 2010
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The Church of the Resurrection in Hamilton, Diocese of Niagara had a Maundy Thursday drive-through foot-washing.
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The mystery of the greatness of God is seen precisely in the fact that he can be small...only when power is changed from the inside, and we accept Jesus and his way of life, whose whole self is there in the action of foot-washing, only then can the world be healed and the people be able to live at peace one another.
"When... Joanna Bogle 2009
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The mystery of the greatness of God is seen precisely in the fact that he can be small...only when power is changed from the inside, and we accept Jesus and his way of life, whose whole self is there in the action of foot-washing, only then can the world be healed and the people be able to live at peace one another.
Archive 2009-04-01 Joanna Bogle 2009
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