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Trinity Sunday

American  

noun

  1. the Sunday after Pentecost, observed as a festival in honor of the Trinity.


Trinity Sunday British  

noun

  1. the Sunday after Whit Sunday

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of Trinity Sunday

late Middle English word dating back to 1400–50

Example Sentences

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The Rev. Stuart Kenworthy, cathedral vicar, will preach at all of the Trinity Sunday services and preside at the 8 a.m. service.

From Washington Post • May 20, 2016

Organ recital and festival evensong for Trinity Sunday.

From Washington Post • May 29, 2015

You’d have to add Easter to that list, and perhaps the major movable feast days of Ash Wednesday, Palm Sunday, Holy Thursday, Good Friday, Pentecost, Trinity Sunday, and the beginning of Advent.

From Slate • Apr. 6, 2012

They differ from Western Baptists by observing traditional church feast days like Trinity Sunday, the day on which President Nixon visited.

From Time Magazine Archive

The prayers used in what is called Ember Week she had noticed and understood, but of their connexion with certain Sundays in the year, among others Trinity Sunday, she knew nothing.

From Englefield Grange or Mary Armstrong's Troubles by Paull, H. B.

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