Great Lent

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专有名词
  1. In Eastern Christianity, the period of fasting before Pascha.

词源

A calque from a language with traditional Orthodox practice, where this fast is called "great" to distinguish it from the Advent and Dormition fasts, likely a calque of Byzantine Greek Μεγάλη Νηστεία (Megálē Nēsteía).
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