2. Noun. Offering of the first of the harvest. ¹
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Definition of Firstfruits
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Firstfruits
Literary usage of Firstfruits
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the Death of Elizabeth by James Anthony Froude (1881)
"... the See of Rome : he remitted formally by statute the tenths and firstfruits,
which the colleges had paid in common with all other church corporations. ..."
2. The Origin and Growth of the English Constitution: An Historical Treatise by Hannis Taylor (1898)
"... soon followed by an act forbidding the payment to the pope payment of of the
annates,3 or firstfruits of benefices, which the bishops firstfruits, ..."
3. Publications by Folklore Society (Great Britain) (1897)
"FOLKLORE firstfruits FROM LESBOS. (Vol. vii., p. 143.) WPM I am sorry that the
following mistakes escaped me : Page 146, line 7 from bottom, ..."
4. The Holy Bible: Containing the Old and New Testaments: Translated Out of the by Canadian Bible Society (1891)
"... and of the wheat, the firstfruits of them which they shall offer unto the
LORD, them have I given thee, 13 And whatsoever is first ripe in th0 land, ..."
5. Publications of the Mississippi Historical Society by Franklin Lafayette Riley, Mississippi Historical Society (1898)
"IRWIN RUSSELL—firstfruits OF THE SOUTHERN ROMANTIC MOVEMENT. BY WL WEBER. So wide
is the connotation of the word Romanticism, we may make up almost any ..."
6. Greek Votive Offerings: An Essay in the History of Greek Religion by William Henry Denham Rouse (1902)
"... firstfruits, AND KINDRED OFFERINGS. Xenocrates at the Pythium on Mount Olympus,
his calculations of the height of the mountain1. ..."
7. The Making of Modern England by Gilbert Slater (1913)
"THE firstfruits OF REFORM Two questions arise from the previous narrative of the
manner in which the Reform Act of 1832 was carried. ..."
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