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🔴 **Good Friday**

Dave Wilton

“_In Old and Middle English, the adjective god (good) could mean pious, devout, morally perfect, so the good in Good Friday is a linguistic relic meaning holy, in other words, Holy Friday._”

🔗 wordorigins-org.ghost.io/good-.

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