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Definition of Quinquagesima
1. Noun. The Sunday before Ash Wednesday (the beginning of Lent).
Definition of Quinquagesima
1. a. Fiftieth.
Definition of Quinquagesima
1. Noun. (Christianity) a Sunday in the Christian calendar. It is 50 days, using inclusive counting, backwards, from Easter Sunday. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Quinquagesima
Literary usage of Quinquagesima
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Companion for the Festivals and Fasts of the Protestant Episcopal Church by John Henry Hobart, Robert Nelson (1851)
"Of SEPTUAGESIMA, SEXAGESIMA, and quinquagesima SUNDAYS. A. The first Sunday in
Lent being called Quadragesima, being the fortieth day before Easter, ..."
2. The Acts and Monuments of John Foxe: With a Life of the Martyrologist, and by John Foxe, George Townsend (1844)
"... on the Sunday of quinquagesima, and afterwards exhibited to the archbishop of
Canterbury, being then, as it seemeth, William Courtney, here followeth. ..."
3. The Christian Year: Thought in Verse for the Sundays and Holydays by John Keble (1856)
"... quinquagesima SUNDAY. I do set My bow in the cloud, and it snail be for a
token of a covenant between Me and the earth. Genesis ix. 13. ..."
4. The Christian Year: Thoughts in Verse for the Sundays and Holydays by John Keble (1878)
"... quinquagesima SUNDAY. I do set my bow in the clouds, and it shall be for a
token of a covenant between me and the earth.—Gen. ix. 13. ..."
5. A New General Biographical Dictionary by Hugh James Rose (1853)
"... quinquagesima, and Quadragesima ; on Baptism ; on Confession ; on the Sacraments ;
Three Homilies ; Life of Antichrist ; on Virtue and Vice ; Fragment ..."
6. The Lord's Prayer: Nine Sermons Preached in the Chapel of Lincoln's Inn by Frederick Denison Maurice (1872)
"quinquagesima SUNDAY. THY Wm, BB DONE, AS IN HEAVEN, so IN EARTH. — Luke xi. 2.
prayer we considered last week could ,*- not easily be separated from the ..."
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