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Definition of Eastertide
1. Noun. The Easter season.
Definition of Eastertide
1. Noun. The season from Easter to Whitsun ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Eastertide
Literary usage of Eastertide
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Science from an Easy Chair: A Second Series by Edwin Ray Lankester (1913)
"... CHAPTER XXI Eastertide, SHAMROCKS AND SPERMACETI MOST people think of Easter
as a Christian festival, but it is really in name and origin a pagan one. ..."
2. The Songs of the Russian People: As Illustrative of Slavonic Mythology and by William Ralston Shedden Ralston (1872)
"To this day the Servians keep up a custom very similar to the Russian
Cuckoo-Christening, held at Eastertide in memory of the dead, with kiss- ings through ..."
3. Christian Worship: Its Origin and Evolution. A Study of the Latin Liturgy Up by Louis Duchesne (1904)
"Eastertide. The Christian Easter was preceded by a fast and followed by seven
weeks of ... Thus defined, Lent and Eastertide may claim attestation of their ..."
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