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Definition of Hallowmass
1. Noun. A Christian feast day honoring all the saints; first observed in 835.
Generic synonyms: Holy Day Of Obligation
Group relationships: Nov, November
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hallowmass
Literary usage of Hallowmass
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Reliquary and Illustrated Archaeologist,: A Quarterly Journal and Review edited by Llewellyn Frederick William Jewitt, John Charles Cox, John Romilly Allen (1886)
"... OR " hallowmass-EVE :" ITS HISTORY AND OBSERVANCES. The last day of the present
month being the " Eve," of "Hallow- mass," the following account of the ..."
2. Brand's Popular Antiquities of Great Britain: Faiths and Folklore; a by John Brand (1905)
"The ball broke up at an early hour on Wednesday morning. In a newspaper of 1877,
this custom is described as still existing in Perthshire. hallowmass. ..."
3. Le Morte Darthur: Sir Thomas Malory's Book of King Arthur and of His Noble by Thomas Malory, William Caxton (1903)
"And then every knight of the Round Table that were there at that time present
made them ready to be at that jousts at All hallowmass, and thither drew many ..."
4. A Glossary of Liturgical and Ecclesiastical Terms by Frederick George Lee (1877)
"HALLOWE'EN.—The Scotch term for the eve of the feast of All Saints. hallowmass.
—1. All Saints' day. 2. The mass or communion of the feast of All Saints. ..."
5. Shakespeare's London: A Study of London in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth by Thomas Fairman Ordish (1897)
"hallowmass was a holy feast, probably founded on a pre.Christian celebration of
the gifts of Nature and ... hallowmass exists in the present All Saints' Day ..."
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