Via Crucis en · NOUN
Meanings
- The Way of the Cross.
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Any extremely arduous or painful experience requiring strength or courage to endure.
But the belief which became imprinted on him was that of the onerousness of God's ‘call’, a via crucis of religious duties – prayers, fasting, church attendance, Bible reading, soul-searching – from which he equally continually shied away
2003, Roy Porter, Flesh in the Age of Reason, Penguin, published 2004, page 187:
Translations (3)
es vía crucis (arduous experience) · pt via-crúcis (arduous experience) · gl viacrucis (arduous experience)