Crossword-Solution: PENTECOST
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| Pentecost | n. | A solemn festival of the Jews; -- so called because celebrated on the fiftieth day (seven weeks) after the second day of the Passover (which fell on the sixteenth of the Jewish month Nisan); -- hence called, also, the Feast of Weeks. At this festival an offering of the first fruits of the harvest was made. By the Jews it was generally regarded as commemorative of the gift of the law on the fiftieth day after the departure from Egypt. |
| Pentecost | n. | A festival of the Roman Catholic and other churches in commemoration of the descent of the Holy Spirit on the apostles; which occurred on the day of Pentecost; -- called also Whitsunday. |
We have 18 clues for the answer “PENTECOST”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Post-Easter festival | 1 answer |
| whit sunday | 1 answer |
| Whitsunday, by another name | 1 answer |
| Whitsunday or Shavuot | 1 answer |
| SEVENTH Sunday after Easter | 1 answer |
| Post-Easter fete | 1 answer |
| It's celebrated seven Sundays after Easter | 1 answer |
| FEAST of weeks | 1 answer |
| Easter follower | 1 answer |
| A Jewish festival that takes place fifty days after the second day of Passover | 1 answer |
| Shavuot | 2 answers |
| TRINITY Sunday, the Sunday prior to | 2 answers |
| OLD Testament festival | 3 answers |
| Whitsunday | 3 answers |
| Christian festival | 3 answers |
| SEASON of church | 6 answers |
| COMMEMORATES THE EMANATION OF THE HOLY SPIRIT TO THE APOSTLES | 11 answers |
| NEW Hebrides island | 14 answers |
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An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
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Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
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Sentences with PENTECOST (5)
All that they lacked was, the gift that descended upon the chosen disciples at Pentecost, in tongues of flame; symbolising, it would seem, not the power of speech in foreign and unknown languages, but that of addressing the whole human brotherhood in the heart’s native language.
This year Edgar the etheling was consecrated king at Bath, on Pentecost's mass-day, on the fifth before the ides of May, the thirteenth year since he had obtained the kingdom; and he was then one less than thirty years of age.
The sacrament of baptism 67 was regularly administered by the bishop himself, with his assistant clergy, in the cathedral church of the diocese, during the fifty days between the solemn festivals of Easter and Pentecost; and this holy term admitted a numerous band of infants and adult persons into the bosom of the church.
Impatient of a delay, which he stigmatized as voluntary and culpable, 44 Cyril announced the opening of the synod sixteen days after the festival of Pentecost.
About the festival of the Pentecost he displayed his banner, and marched towards Venice at the head of the Italians: he was preceded or followed by the counts of Flanders and Blois, and the most respectable barons of France; and their numbers were swelled by the pilgrims of Germany, 45 whose object and motives were similar to their own.
Quotes with PENTECOST (3)
Dr. Urbino caught the parrot around the neck with a triumphant sigh: ça y est. But he released him immediately because the ladder slipped from under his feet and for an instant he was suspended in the air and then he realized that he had died without Communion, without time to repent of anything or to say goodbye to anyone, at seven minutes after four on Pentecost Sunday. Fermina Daza was in the kitchen tasting the soup for supper when she heard Digna Pardo's horrified shriek…
It is well known that Pentecost reverses Babel. The people who built the tower of Babel sought to make a name, and a unity, for themselves. At Pentecost, God builds his temple, uniting people in Christ. Unity — interpretive agreement and mutual understanding — is, it would appear, something that only God can accomplish. And accomplish it he does, but not in the way we might have expected. Although onlookers thought that the believers who received the Spirit at Pentecost were …
Before three thousand people were brought into the church on the day of Pentecost, the disciples had spent fifty days in prayer, fasting, and spiritual travail.
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Used 8 times in crossword archives (1975–2024).