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Definition of Advent Sunday
1. Noun. The first of the four Sundays during Advent.
Definition of Advent Sunday
1. Proper noun. The fourth Sunday before Christmas Day, the start of Advent: 30 November (Saint Andrew's Day) or the nearest Sunday to it. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Advent Sunday
Literary usage of Advent Sunday
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor: With a Life of the Author by Jeremy Taylor, Reginald Heber (1839)
"SERMON I. ADVENT-SUNDAY. DOOMSDAY-BOOK; OR, CHRIST'S ADVENT TO JUDGMENT. For we
must all appear before the judgment-seat of Christ, that every one may ..."
2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"The key day for Advent Sunday is therefore St. Martin (11 Nov.), as it is in the
Ambrosian Rite, and, as according to the Council of ..."
3. Remains, Historical and Literary, Connected with the Palatine Counties of by Chetham Society (1895)
"... Faithful Witness, teaches us to pray. 70 Again should we be learning and again,
Till Life becomes a practical " Amen." THE COLLECT FOR Advent Sunday. ..."
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