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Spy Wednesday
noun
- (in Ireland) the Wednesday before Easter, named for Judas' becoming a spy for the Sanhedrin
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Thus dawned the Wednesday before Easter, or as the Irish sometimes called it, Spy Wednesday — for the day Judas betrayed Jesus.
From New York Times
Spy Wednesday, so called in allusion to the betrayal of Christ by Judas, or the day on which he made the bargain to deliver him into the hands of his enemies for thirty pieces of silver.
From Project Gutenberg
Last week ten members of the Jesuit, Dominican, Franciscan and other orders were sentenced�on Spy Wednesday*� on the usual Red charges of espionage and conspiracy.
Spy Wednesday, its meaning, 511.
From Project Gutenberg
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