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Relic Sunday

Relic Sunday proper noun: a Sunday when a church's relics are especially venerated.

Proper noun

Relic Sunday

  1. (historical) A Sunday when a church's relics are especially venerated.
    • The 23. of Henry the Seventh, the 9. of July, beinge relyke sonday, there was sene at Calleys an innumerable swarme of whit butterflyes cominge out of the north-este [...].c. 1541, The Chronicle of Calais, London, published 1846
    • On Relic Sunday, an annual day whereon all the canons, clerks, and singing men were wont to go round the church in procession, every one carrying a relic, Testwood's offences rose very high.1877, Richard Watson Dixon, History of the Church of England, volume II

Questions about Relic Sunday

What does Relic Sunday mean?
Relic Sunday means a Sunday when a church's relics are especially venerated.
What part of speech is Relic Sunday?
Relic Sunday is a proper noun.

Words near Relic Sunday in the dictionary

  1. reliberate
  2. reliberated
  3. reliberates
  4. reliberating
  5. relic
  6. Relic Sunday
  7. relic-monger
  8. relic-mongers
  9. relical
  10. relicaries
  11. relicary

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