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Sunday: see Sabbath Sabbath [Heb.,=repose], in Judaism, last day of the week (Saturday), observed as a rest day for the twenty-five hours commencing with sundown on Friday. In the biblical account of creation (Gen. 1) the seventh day is set as a Sabbath to mark God's rest after his work.
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; week week, period of time shorter than the month, commonly seven days. The ancient Egyptians used a 10-day period, as did the French under the short-lived French Revolutionary calendar .
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Sunday
the first day of the week and the Christian day of worship


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They were busy making the necessary arrange- ments to alter the route of the Southampton and Portsmouth Sunday League excursions.
"It's Sunday again- another week past," she thought, recalling that she had been here the Sunday before, "and always the same life that is no life, and the same surroundings in which it used to be so easy to live.
Macey; "and my advice is--have you got a Sunday suit?
 
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