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Noun
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Quinquagesima
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Quinquagesima Sunday
(the Sunday before Ash Wednesday (the beginning of Lent))
direct hypernym
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inherited hypernym
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sister term
S:
(n)
Christian holy day
(a religious holiday for Christians)
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(n)
quarter day
(a Christian holy day; one of four specified days when certain payments are due)
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(n)
holy day of obligation
(a day when Catholics must attend Mass and refrain from servile work, and Episcopalians must take Communion)
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(n)
Saint Agnes's Eve
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January 20
(a Christian holy day)
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(n)
Easter Sunday
,
Easter Day
(the day (in March or April) on which the festival of Easter is celebrated)
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(n)
Palm Sunday
(Sunday before Easter)
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Passion Sunday
(second Sunday before Easter)
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(n)
Good Friday
(Friday before Easter)
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(n)
Low Sunday
(the Sunday following Easter)
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(n)
Holy Saturday
(the Saturday before Easter; the last day of Lent)
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(n)
Holy Innocents' Day
,
Innocents' Day
(December 28, commemorating Herod's slaughter of the children of Bethlehem)
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(n)
Septuagesima
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Septuagesima Sunday
(the 3rd Sunday before Lent (or the 9th before Easter))
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(n)
Quinquagesima
,
Quinquagesima Sunday
(the Sunday before Ash Wednesday (the beginning of Lent))
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(n)
Quadragesima
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Quadrigesima Sunday
(the first Sunday in Lent)
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(n)
Trinity Sunday
(eighth Sunday after Easter)
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(n)
Rogation Day
(one of the three days before Ascension Day; observed by some Christians as days of supplication)
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(n)
Maundy Thursday
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Holy Thursday
(the Thursday before Easter; commemorates the Last Supper)
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(n)
Corpus Christi
(Thursday after Trinity Sunday; first celebrated in 1246)
S:
(n)
Saints Peter and Paul
,
June 29
(first celebrated in the 3rd century)
S:
(n)
Epiphany
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Epiphany of Our Lord
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Twelfth day
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Three Kings' Day
,
January 6
(twelve days after Christmas; celebrates the visit of the three wise men to the infant Jesus)
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(n)
Saint Joseph
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St Joseph
,
March 19
(a Christian holy day)
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(n)
Twelfth night
(eve of Twelfth day; evening of January 5)
S:
(n)
All Souls' Day
,
November 2
(a day of supplication for all the souls in purgatory)
S:
(n)
Ash Wednesday
(the 7th Wednesday before Easter; the first day of Lent; the day following Mardi Gras (`Fat Tuesday'); a day of fasting and repentance)
S:
(n)
Ember Day
(a day set aside for fasting and prayer)
S:
(n)
Advent Sunday
(the first of the four Sundays during Advent)
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(n)
Mardi Gras
,
Shrove Tuesday
,
Fat Tuesday
,
pancake day
(the last day before Lent)
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(n)
Transfiguration
,
Transfiguration Day
,
August 6
((Christianity) a church festival held in commemoration of the Transfiguration of Jesus)