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Definition of Holy day
1. Noun. A day specified for religious observance.
Specialized synonyms: Fast Day, Christian Holy Day, Jewish Holy Day, Dormition, Feast Of Dormition
Group relationships: Christian Year, Church Year
Generic synonyms: Holiday
Lexicographical Neighbors of Holy Day
Literary usage of Holy day
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Holy-days and Holidays: A Treasury of Historical Material, Sermons in Full by Edward Mark Deems (1906)
"The details of the passage we have given show that it is God's day ("my holy
day") in which man is to withdraw from his accustomed works, pleasures, ..."
2. The Works of President Edwards: With a Memoir of His Life by Jonathan Edwards, David Brainerd (1830)
"So this is an holy day, to be kept in remembrance of the Lord Christ, and his
redemption. So the city Jerusalem was called by God's name; Jer. xxv. 29. ..."
3. The Antiquary by Edward Walford, John Charles Cox, George Latimer Apperson (1882)
"... shall not from henceforth be kepte or observed as a holy-day, as heretofore
hath been used, but that it shall be lawful to all and singular persons, ..."
4. The Works of President Edwards: With a Memoir of His Life by Jonathan Edwards, Sereno Edwards Dwight (1829)
"So this is an holy day, to be kept in remembrance of the Lord Christ, and his
redemption. The first day of the week being in scripture called the Lord's day ..."
5. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1911)
"Fallen into a pit: on a holy day. The mother and its offspring may not be ...
And still less on a Sabbath for a holy day: because one can prepare it on the ..."
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