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Great Assize

Great Assize proper noun: the Last Judgment.

Proper noun

the Great Assize

  1. (archaic) The Last Judgment.
    • The complete report cannot be rendered until the books are opened at the Great Assize. Then many shall rise up and call its members blessed […]1890, Francis Edward Smiley, The Evangelization of a Great City: or, The Churches’ Answer to the Bitter Cry of Outcast, page 63
    • But none of these authorities seem to establish the Great Assize and the Coming of the Lord in the Clouds as a future, far-off event to be literally expected.1896, Hugh Reginald Haweis, The Dead Pulpit, page 258

Questions about Great Assize

What does Great Assize mean?
Great Assize means the Last Judgment.
What part of speech is Great Assize?
Great Assize is a proper noun.

Words near Great Assize in the dictionary

  1. Great Apostasy
  2. great arteries
  3. great artery
  4. Great Artesian Basin
  5. Great Assassin
  6. Great Assize
  7. Great Attractor
  8. great auk
  9. great auks
  10. great aunt
  11. great aunts

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