god's acre
graveyard of a church, cemetery | ||||
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God`s acre Definition from Language, Idioms & Slang Dictionaries & Glossaries
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God's acre
Noun
1. the yard associated with a church
(synonym) churchyard
(hypernym) yard
Noun
1. the yard associated with a church
(synonym) churchyard
(hypernym) yard
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god`s acre
god's acre god's acre, god's field; the churchyard. i like that ancient saxon phrase, which calls the burial ground, god's acre...
see also acre
god's acre god's acre, god's field; the churchyard. i like that ancient saxon phrase, which calls the burial ground, god's acre...
see also acre
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God's acre
graveyard: cill, reilig
graveyard: cill, reilig
God`s acre Definition from Encyclopedia Dictionaries & Glossaries
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God's Acre
God's Acre is the traditional name given to the graveyards of Congregations of the Moravian Church. The first was at Herrnhut Saxony in Germany, the Moravian Mother Congregation. The name comes from the symbolic gesture of the bodies of the Moravian dead being "sown" in God's Acre, as in a field, so that they can rise again when Jesus Christ returns to the world. God's Acre is not literally one acre in size; many are larger or smaller.
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