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Whitsun
[ hwit-suhn, wit- ]
adjective
- of or relating to Whitsunday or Whitsuntide.
noun
- Whitsunday or Whitsuntide.
Whitsun
/ ˈwɪtsən /
adjective
- of or relating to Whit Sunday or Whitsuntide
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Word History and Origins
Origin of Whitsun1
1250–1300; Middle English Whitsone ( n ), shortening of whitsonenday (by analysis as whitsonen-day ); Whitsunday
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Example Sentences
Some two years later, during the Whitsun holiday, I had taken one of my daughters to the cinema and arrived home about 10.30pm.
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A May-pole was an abomination equalled only in atrocity by a "Whitsun-ale" or a "Morris-dance."
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Two Whitsun-eves running it had caught fire and burned to the ground.
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During the Whitsun festival carriages are scarcely to be procured in the whole of Montenegro, or in Cattaro either.
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Prominent amongst all the youths stood the Whitsun King of the year before.
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Then, my beloved little brother, are you not aware that to-day is red Whitsun Day?
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