holytide

English

Noun

holytide (plural holytides)

  1. (religion) A holy day, or religious festival.
    • 1886, Arthur Cayley Headlam, The Church Quarterly Review, volume 22, page 233:
      […] and do not know how the critical days of the great siege are there kept as festivals practically of more account than the common holytides of Christendom; […]
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