Meaning & use

Pasch

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The Christian festival of Easter, or the Jewish festival of Passover.

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In some dialects, people still refer to Easter Sunday as Pasch.

The old prayer book included special readings for the season of Pasch.

A note on using this word

"Pasch" derives from the Latin "Pascha," ultimately from the Hebrew "Pesach" (Passover), and survives mainly in dialectal and liturgical English.

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