Eastermonth

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1. poeticThe typical month of the Paschal cycle; Paschal month; the month in which Easter typically occurs; April.

   Charlemagne called April the Easter month, because it is the month in which Easter usually falls.

   1865, The Bromley record and monthly advertiser

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   It is pretended that it is a heathen institution, or copied from a heathen institution; which reflection is derived from the circumstance of there having been a goddess called by different writers Aoster, Eoster, Eostre, Oster, or Easter, whose feast was celebrated in the month of April, which was thence called Easter Month.

   1807, The churchman's magazine

   April, the "Easter month" of the Saxon, the season of renewed life in the outside world, is, by some nations, reckoned as the beginning of the new year.

   1883, Dorcas magazine

   When the month that we call Eastermonth is over, then the night lasts ten hours and the day fourteen hours.

   1900, Georg Herzfeld, Original series

   On this Easter month we have for several years sent out to the friends of our Society a little booklet of real pictures, showing some of the many lines of our work among the poor.

   1903, New York City mission monthly

   However, we find nineteen [and five] nights from the time that Eastermonth comes, the cycle revolves eke to the day when eager with song fervent with words we worship, [...]

   2003, Cyril Roy Hart, Learning and culture in late Anglo-Saxon England