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View synonyms for Black Mass

Black Mass

or black mass

noun

  1. a blasphemous ceremony mocking the Christian Mass, especially one by an alleged worshiper of Satan.
  2. a Requiem Mass.


black mass

noun

  1. sometimes capitals a blasphemous travesty of the Christian Mass, performed by practitioners of black magic
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of Black Mass1

First recorded in 1890–95
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Example Sentences

His more polemical books, such as Black Mass and Straw Dogs, often posit a worldview bleak enough to make Beckett blanch.

One could make out but little of detail; but he could note that a black mass was piling itself up beyond the second fence.

There was enough star-gleam to show the black mass of stone, like a crouching monster gathering to spring upon him.

Tonight was Black Mass, and his attendance there was definitely required.

After what he had been through, the Black Mass was necessarily an anticlimax.

The result, seen in the dark, was a formless black mass, very doughy and fatty; but with oases of palatable matter.

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