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View synonyms for Black Mass
Black Mass
or black mass
noun
- a blasphemous ceremony mocking the Christian Mass, especially one by an alleged worshiper of Satan.
- a Requiem Mass.
black mass
noun
- sometimes capitals a blasphemous travesty of the Christian Mass, performed by practitioners of black magic
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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.
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One could make out but little of detail; but he could note that a black mass was piling itself up beyond the second fence.
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There was enough star-gleam to show the black mass of stone, like a crouching monster gathering to spring upon him.
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Tonight was Black Mass, and his attendance there was definitely required.
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After what he had been through, the Black Mass was necessarily an anticlimax.
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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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