Advent Sunday

American  

noun

1. the first Sunday in Advent.

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Advent Sunday British  

noun

1. the first of the four Sundays of Advent, and the one that falls nearest to November 30

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Advent Sunday

On the morning of the first Advent Sunday, Stuttgart was quiet and peaceful.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 9, 2015

Then there is the loss of a day every year until Advent Sunday again falls on the 27th of November and so on.

From Our Calendar by George Nichols Packer

Some of these verses were sung in the College Chapel on the evening of Advent Sunday, 1853.

From Kalli, the Esquimaux Christian A Memoir by Thomas Boyles Murray

He commenced to write sacred poetry in 1724, and on Advent Sunday of that year began a cycle of “Profitable Thoughts,” so he termed them, upon the Sunday and Saints' Day Gospels.

From Johann Sebastian Bach by Johann Nikolaus Forkel

Such poems as that for Advent Sunday, or the Second Sunday after Trinity, contain between seventy and eighty heroic lines.

From Essays by Arthur Christopher Benson

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