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Whitsunday
[ hwit-suhn-dey, -dee, wit-; hwit-suhn-dey, wit- ]
noun
- the seventh Sunday after Easter, celebrated as a festival in commemoration of the descent of the Holy Spirit on the day of Pentecost.
Whitsunday
/ ˌwɪt-; ˌhwɪtˈsʌndɪ /
noun
- (in Scotland) May 15, one of the four quarter days
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Word History and Origins
Origin of Whitsunday1
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Example Sentences
He threw the Perth bailies into prison, and required them, on pain of death, to pay up 54 of the King's Whitsunday rents.
Ay, come next Whitsunday, please God, the lords will know who are the real masters.
A Huguenot minister was discovered on Whitsunday, in an adjoining village, and brought to Cateau.
On the Sunday following—it was Whitsunday—the resolution was published from the pulpits.
Then he departed from them and took his two cousins with him, and so they came unto Camelot by the hour of underne on Whitsunday.
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