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Definition of Jubilee

1. Noun. A special anniversary (or the celebration of it).

Definition of Jubilee

1. n. Every fiftieth year, being the year following the completion of each seventh sabbath of years, at which time all the slaves of Hebrew blood were liberated, and all lands which had been alienated during the whole period reverted to their former owners.

Definition of Jubilee

1. Noun. (context in the Old Testament) a year of rest, observed by the Israelites every 50 years ¹

2. Noun. (context in Roman Catholicism) a holy year when people are encouraged to make a pilgrimage to Rome ¹

3. Noun. (context: Jewish history) A special year of emancipation supposed to be kept every fifty years, when farming was abandoned and Hebrew slaves were set free. (defdate from 14th c.) ¹

4. Noun. A fiftieth anniversary. (defdate from 14th c.) ¹

5. Noun. (context: Catholicism) A special year (originally held every hundred years, then fifty, and then fewer) in which remission from sin could be granted as well as indulgences upon making a pilgrimage to Rome. (defdate from 15th c.) ¹

6. Noun. A time of celebration or rejoicing. (defdate from 16th c.) ¹

7. Noun. (obsolete) A period of fifty years; a half-century. (defdate 17th-18th c.) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Jubilee

1. a celebration [n -S] - See also: celebration

Medical Definition of Jubilee

1. 1. Every fiftieth year, being the year following the completion of each seventh sabbath of years, at which time all the slaves of Hebrew blood were liberated, and all lands which had been alienated during the whole period reverted to their former owners. [In this sense spelled also, in some English Bibles, jubile. 2. The joyful commemoration held on the fiftieth anniversary of any event; as, the jubilee of Queen Victoria's reign; the jubilee of the American Board of Missions. 3. A church solemnity or ceremony celebrated at Rome, at stated intervals, originally of one hundred years, but latterly of twenty-five; a plenary and extraordinary indulgence grated by the sovereign pontiff to the universal church. One invariable condition of granting this indulgence is the confession of sins and receiving of the eucharist. 4. A season of general joy. "The town was all a jubilee of feasts." (Dryden) 5. A state of joy or exultation. "In the jubilee of his spirits." Origin: F. Jubile, L. Jubilaeus, Gr, fr. Heb. Ybel the blast of a trumpet, also the grand sabbatical year, which was announced by sound of trumpet. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

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Literary usage of Jubilee

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"The most distinctive feature in the ceremonial of the Jubilee is the un- walling and the final walling up of the "holy door" in each of the four great ..."

2. Dr. William Smith's Dictionary of the Bible: Comprising Its Antiquities by Sir William Smith (1888)
"The simplest view, and the only one which accords with the sacred text, is, that the year which followed the seventh sabbatical year was the Jubilee, ..."

3. The Guilt of Slavery and the Crime of Slaveholding: Demonstrated from the by George Barrell Cheever (1860)
"39-46, are occupied with the regulation of the treatment of such Hebrew and heathen servants respectively, as were bound to servitude until the jubilee. ..."

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