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What does Calvary mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word Calvary? Here's what it means.

Proper noun
  1. The hill outside Jerusalem which is traditionally held to be the location of the crucifixion of Jesus.
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An impassioned mother, she had been ascending her Calvary ever since her son's death.
The lintel shows Jesus carrying the cross on the way to Calvary.
In Calvary, it's this that Brendan Gleeson's priest turns to when he wants to fall off the wagon fast.
It apprehends his life of perfect obedience and his sacrificial death on Calvary as the spotless Lamb.
Other Calvary pastors have been removed when they were convicted of similar crimes.
And Terre Haute Federal Prison and its death house in rural Indiana hardly make for a modern-day Calvary or Golgotha.

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