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单词 whitsuntide
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Whitsuntiden.

Brit. /ˈwɪtsntʌɪd/, U.S. /ˈ(h)wɪts(ə)nˌtaɪd/
Forms:

α. early Middle English White-sune-tide, early Middle English Wit-sonentid, Middle English Qhythson tyd, Middle English Whitesonetyde, Middle English Whitsonetyd, Middle English Whitsonetyde, Middle English Whitsontyd, Middle English Whyttsontyde, Middle English Witesone tid, Middle English Witesontid, Middle English Witesontyd, Middle English Witsuntide, Middle English Wittesontyde, Middle English Wytsontide, Middle English Wytson tyde, Middle English Wyȝtsounetyde, Middle English–1500s Whytsontyde, Middle English–1500s Whytson tyde, Middle English–1500s Witsontyde, Middle English–1500s Wytsontyd, Middle English–1500s Wytsontyde, Middle English–1600s Whitsontid, Middle English–1600s Witsontide, Middle English–1700s Whitsontide, 1500s Whitesontyde, 1500s Whittsontyd, 1500s Whytesontyde, 1500s Whytsontide, 1500s Witsenstyde, 1500s Witsonnetide, 1500s–1600s Whitsuntid, 1500s–1600s Whitsuntyde, 1500s– Whitsuntide, 1600s Whitesontide, 1600s Whitson-tyde; N.E.D. (1924) also records a form of the first element 1500s Witte-.

β. Middle English Wesontyde, Middle English Whisson tyde, Middle English Whissontyde, Middle English Whisson-tyde, Middle English Whyssentyde, Middle English Whyssone-tyde, Middle English Whysson tyde, Middle English Wissontide, 1500s Whysontide, 1600s (1800s English regional (northern)) Whissontide, 1800s Whissuntide (Scottish); N.E.D. (1924) also records a form of the first element late Middle English Whissone-.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: Whitsunday n., tide n.
Etymology: < whitsun- (in Whitsunday n., reflecting reanalysis of the compound) + tide n. Compare later Whitsun n.In sense 2 rendering post-classical Latin pentecoste Pentecost n. in its specific sense ‘Shavuot, Feast of Weeks’; compare Pentecost n. 1. The β. forms show assimilation; compare β. forms at Whitsunday n. and β. forms at Whitsun n.
1. The church season of Pentecost (Pentecost n. 2); the weekend including Whitsunday, or the week beginning on that day.
ΘΚΠ
society > faith > worship > liturgical year > feast, festival > specific Christian festivals > Pentecost > [noun]
PentecosteOE
WhitsundayOE
Whitsundaya1250
Whitsuntidec1275
Lok-Soundayc1315
Lokes1340
Whitsun Sunday1532
White Sunday1546
W.c1565
Whit week1728
society > faith > worship > liturgical year > feast, festival > specific Christian festivals > Pentecost > [noun] > season of
Whitsuntidec1275
Whitsunc1325
Pinkster1797
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 15736 Hit ilomp an ane time to þan White-sune-tide [c1300 Otho Witsontime] þat þe king hehte of londen.
c1325 (c1300) Chron. Robert of Gloucester (Calig.) 3111 To þe doune of ambresbury þes stones ybroȝt were, Aȝen þe feste of witesontyd.
c1330 Roland & Vernagu (Auch.) (1882) 440 At ester, at wissontide, & at seyn iames day.., & in ȝole.
1448 M. Paston in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) I. 222 Herry Goneld hath browth to me xl s.,..and he seyth I xal have more or Qhythson tyd.
1484 W. Caxton tr. Ordre of Chyualry (1926) v. 66 To make & adoube a knyȝt it apperteyneth the day of some grete feste as Crystemas, Ester, Whitsontyd.
1519 in W. L. Nash Churchwardens' Acct. Bk. St. Giles, Reading (1851) 4 Recd in gatheryng wt the kyngplay at Witsontide.
1553 in Sir W. Parker Hist. Long. Melford (1873) 97 At Witsenstyde.
1601 J. Marston et al. Iacke Drums Entertainm. i. sig. A3v Tis Whitson-tyde, and we must frolick it.
1650 P. Chamberlen Master Bakewells Sea Absurdities 13 Easter and Whitsuntide were therefore appointed by the Ancients for fit times of Baptisme.
1710 R. Steele Tatler No. 178. ⁋3 We wish..all our Customers a merry Whitsuntide.
1751 J. Wesley Let. 7 Apr. (1931) III. 67 I cannot possibly answer them all between this and Whitsuntide.
1859 Ld. Tennyson Enid in Idylls of King 8 Arthur on the Whitsuntide before Held court at old Caerleon upon Usk.
1879 Baily's Monthly Mag. July 111 The chills and miseries of our Easters and Whitsuntides.
1916 W. F. Monypenny & G. E. Buckle Life Disraeli IV. i. 9 After Whitsuntide the general debate was resumed.
2008 Herald Express (Torquay) (Nexis) 1 Aug. 25 The fair has been held during Whitsuntide since the Middle Ages.
2. In early versions of the New Testament: the Jewish festival of Pentecost (Pentecost n. 1). Obsolete.
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society > faith > worship > liturgical year > feast, festival > Jewish seasons and feasts > Harvest festival, Pentecost > [noun]
PentecostOE
Feast of Weeksa1382
Whitsuntidec1384
Shavuot1613
c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) 1 Cor. xvi. 8 I schal dwelle at Effecy, til to Witsuntide [1526 Tyndale vntill witsontyde; 1551 Matthew's wytsontyde; L. usque ad pentecosten].

Compounds

General attributive.
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society > faith > worship > liturgical year > feast, festival > specific Christian festivals > Pentecost > [adjective]
Whitsuntide1611
pentecostala1663
1611 T. Coryate Crudities sig. D6 A Whitsuntide foole.., wearing a long coate, wherein there were many seuerall peeces of cloth of diuers colours.
1687 in Jrnl. Friends' Hist. Soc. (1915) Oct. 182 Shee is willinge to sett out..after whitsuntide weeke soe called is ouer.
1734 Compleat Mineral Laws Derbyshire 48 Except Christmas, Easter and Whitsuntide Holidays.
c1755 in B. Ward Hist. St Edmund's Coll. (1893) 303 On all working days in ye Xmas and Whitsuntide Vacations.
1847 Artizan June 137/1 This [race-]course approaches to its completion in time for the Whitsuntide festivities.
1894 Catholic Champion June 148/1 The annual Whitsuntide procession of Church of England Sunday schools in Manchester.
1916 W. F. Monypenny & G. E. Buckle Life Disraeli IV. i. 7 The Whitsuntide recess [of Parliament] was approaching.
2013 Wakefield Express (Nexis) 29 May Hundreds of people joined the Archbishop of York for Horbury's Whitsuntide walk yesterday.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2015; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

Whitsuntidev.

Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: Whitsuntide n.
Etymology: < Whitsuntide n.
Obsolete.
intransitive. To celebrate Whitsuntide; to spend the Whitsuntide holiday somewhere.
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1802 J. Woodforde Diary 7 June (1931) V. 393 Many wet Gowns & Coats among People Whitsuntiding.
1842 R. Smith Let. 20 May in G. Lyster Family Chron. (1908) 175 I have been Whitsuntiding among my flowers.
1875 West End News (London) 22 May The ‘young lion’..who wrote that astounding paragraph must have been Whitsuntiding not wisely but too well.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2015; most recently modified version published online September 2018).
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