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crucifixion

[kroo-suh-fik-shuhn] / ˌkru səˈfɪk ʃən /
NOUN
death by being nailed to a cross
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These are the Annunciation, the Nativity and the Adoration of the Magi; Jesus praying on the Mount of Olives, the Crucifixion and the Lamentation; and, finally, the Resurrection, Ascension and Pentecost.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 26, 2025

Father Luget, Mr Halliday says, claimed to have seen the light over a hillock in the rectory garden and to have seen the Crucifixion above it and the Virgin Mary kneeling before it.

From BBC • Jul. 16, 2023

On that day in 1st-century Judea, Resurrection and Ascension followed Crucifixion.

From Washington Post • Apr. 15, 2022

Born in Dublin in 1909, Bacon didn’t see artistic success until he painted his wartime nightmare of twisted gargoyles, Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion.

From The Guardian • Sep. 17, 2019

The church was packed with women in black, each one stoically suffering the three hours of the Crucifixion with the tortured Christ.

From "Bless Me, Ultima" by Rudolfo Anaya




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