Ascension Day
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of Ascension Day
Middle English word dating back to 1325–75
Example Sentences
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Trade is quiet, with many European investors away due to the Ascension Day holiday.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 14, 2026
The monarch doesn’t celebrate the anniversary of the date she became queen, known as Ascension Day, as it is also the anniversary of her father’s death.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 7, 2022
Festa della Sensa, a 12th-century observance of the city’s marriage to the sea on Ascension Day, offered only so much economic impact.
From Washington Post • Aug. 15, 2019
As a famous letter written by his disciple Cuthbert tells it, the Venerable Bede lay surrounded by colleagues, who took their leave in order to attend the morning’s Ascension Day service.
From The New Yorker • Oct. 29, 2014
If we may assume that his death took place on the eve of Ascension Day in 735, no long period of enfeebled health clouded the close of his life, and weakness never interrupted his work.
From Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Bede, Cuthbert
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