Definitions
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- n. A life-size representation of the crucifixion of Jesus Christ on a piece of raised ground
- n. A series of representations of Christ’s Passion in a church
- n. A strenuous experience
Examples
“The word calvary is a Latin word meaning skull, or place of skulls.”
“DeMint, you guys had your chance at a compromise, now the calvary is here.”
“The calvary is still not here yet, but I have begun to hear the hooves and were almost a week out.”
“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.”
“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
“It is especially in the large "calvary" and behind the altar that this atmosphere of ingenuousness is felt.”
“Smith, the executive director, said he wants the fire department's "calvary" to respond to life-threatening emergencies.”
“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”
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“Over two millennia, 'calvary' has come to mean an extreme experience of physical,”
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“Mexico City - Historic Cuban leader Fidel Castro describes the illness that caused him to step down from power in near-religious terms, calling his health ordeal a "calvary" and his recovery a sort of resurrection.”
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phrontistery - c
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anotherfailedattempt's Words
kakistocracy, conflagration, pollyanna, equanimity, punctillious, obstreperous, ribald, belligerent, truculent, verbose, lachrymose, onanism and 278 more...
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lanklenmot's Words
ineluctable, prelapsarian, bien pensant, prospero, preternatural, gratifying, iconoclast, cineast, persnickety, tumescent, galvanize, pap and 887 more...
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SAT PSAT ALPHABETICAL C
cabal, cache, cacophony, cadaverous, cadence, cajole, callous, callow, calumny, calvary, camaraderie, canard and 199 more...
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dienekes's Words
chutzpah, lexicon, intrepid, pedagogical, schlemiel, schism, erudite, anathema, pugilist, jaunty, paradigm, automaton and 949 more...
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Sat Vocabulary List
abandon, abash, abate, abjure, ablution, abnegate, abominable, aboriginal, abortive, abrade, abridge, abrogate and 2155 more...
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Bible names
noah, almighty, cain, abel, father, mother, israel, king, sanctuary, spirit, psalm, blessing and 236 more...
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The Motorcycle Diaries
Che Guevara
vicissitude, pampas, precursor, solemnity, trajectory, Quixotic, roguish, solder, efficacy, rapport, acrid, circumscribe and 88 more...
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metaphorical places
canossa, waterloo, rubicon, eden, coventry, oz, gethsemane, calvary, serendip, the land of nod, between scylla an..., brigadoon and 77 more...
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oxyrhynchus
chi rho, logos, synoptic, flying buttress, duomo, reliquary, apse, nave, transept, basilica, cloister, clerestory and 42 more...
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minervacat's Words
peripatetic, small, mortality, light, southern, burnt, history, vellum, delightful, violent, sweet, vicious and 60 more...
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Feelings
Exultation, exasperation, and all that. :)
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