Ashwednesday

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A form of Ash Wednesday — The Wednesday 46 days before Easter in a given year, (Catholicism) traditionally observed as the beginning of Lent and a day of strict abstention from certain foods and pleasures.

Scrabble 23

Meanings

nounAshwednesday (plural Ashwednesdays)

plural Ashwednesdays

  1. alternativearchaicAlternative spelling of Ash Wednesday.

    [1695 February] 6 Ashwednesday, a fine frosty morning, walk, read the 24 Book de Finibus, &c.

    1997, Henry Prescott, edited by John Addy, John Harrop, and Peter McNiven, The Diary of Henry Prescott, LL.B., Deputy Registrar of Chester Diocese, volume III, Record Society of Lancashire and Cheshire, page 911
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    […] ſo that the ſame law day after Aſhwedneſday cannot be kept, becauſe the law day of the other feaſt doth light on the ſame day: then the ſecond law day after Aſhwedneſday ſhalbe kept, and the other omitted.

    1590, John Stow, A Svmmarie of the Chronicles of England, from the Firſt arriuing of Brute in this Iſland, vnto this preſent yeere of Chriſt, 1590

    Rather ſpeake of ſenſe and appetite when you ſee a Papiſt in his fat dayes, before Aſhwedneſday , to make worke for the Prieſt, […]

    1641, Francis Rous, chapter XII, in Catholick Charitie, John Bartlet, pages 351-352
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