Candlemas
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.
Origin of Candlemas
1- Also called Candlemas Day .
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How to use Candlemas in a sentence
His Flutiness the Duke—the title was granted last Candlemas—has a voice of a rare richness.
First Plays | A. A. MilneAt its best, it has the continent of Antarctica beat four thousand ways from a week ago last Candlemas.
Unwise Child | Gordon Randall GarrettPeople in Scotland also prognosticated the weather of the coming season, according to whether Candlemas was clear or foul.
The Mysteries of All Nations | James GrantHe says that ‘about Candlemas we had wrought the wall half through,’ and then goes on to describe how he stood sentinel, &c.
What Gunpowder Plot Was | Samuel Rawson GardinerNot common candles she was going to use, but what had been blessed at Candlemas, and that she had kept put by very carefully.
Candle and Crib | K. F. Purdon
British Dictionary definitions for Candlemas
/ (ˈkændəlməs) /
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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