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STATIONS OF THE CROSS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(Roman Catholic Church) a devotion consisting of fourteen prayers said before a series of fourteen pictures or carvings representing successive incidents during Jesus' passage from Pilate's house to his crucifixion at Calvary
Synonyms:
Stations; Stations of the Cross
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("Stations of the Cross" is a kind of...):
devotion ((usually plural) religious observance or prayers (usually spoken silently))
series (similar things placed in order or happening one after another)
Domain category:
Church of Rome; Roman Catholic; Roman Catholic Church; Roman Church; Western Church (the Christian Church based in the Vatican and presided over by a pope and an episcopal hierarchy)
Domain usage:
plural; plural form (the form of a word that is used to denote more than one)
