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Candlemas
[ kan-dl-muhs, -mas ]
noun
- a church festival, February 2, in honor of the presentation of the infant Jesus in the Temple and the purification of the Virgin Mary: candles are blessed on this day.
Candlemas
/ ˈkændəlməs /
noun
- Christianity Feb 2, the Feast of the Purification of the Virgin Mary and the presentation of Christ in the Temple: the day on which the church candles are blessed. In Scotland it is one of the four quarter days
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Word History and Origins
Origin of Candlemas1
before 1050; Middle English candelmasse, Old English candelmæsse. See candle, Mass ( def )
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Example Sentences
His Flutiness the Duke—the title was granted last Candlemas—has a voice of a rare richness.
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At its best, it has the continent of Antarctica beat four thousand ways from a week ago last Candlemas.
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People in Scotland also prognosticated the weather of the coming season, according to whether Candlemas was clear or foul.
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He says that ‘about Candlemas we had wrought the wall half through,’ and then goes on to describe how he stood sentinel, &c.
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Not common candles she was going to use, but what had been blessed at Candlemas, and that she had kept put by very carefully.
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