satanalia
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
Synonym of Saturnalia, emphasizing the immorality of the celebration.
Example Sentences
- "[…] until a complaint was made to the government, the licentiousness of these Satanalia was so gross, that it would have shocked a Greek audience, though accustomed to the plays of Aristophanes."
- "This whole fraud, and these riotous Saturnalia, —I should rather say downright Satanalia, —approved as they are by the body of the Greek ecclesiastics at Jerusalem, ought to exclude those who have the control and management of them from Protestant approbation and ecclesiastical intercommunion."
- "It amused me to picture the consternation of the Friends, could they have peeped in at the Black Saturnalia; or, as they would have called it, Satanalia, in Barbadoes or Jamaica;"
- "We, children of earth, observe a satanalia of the early autumn in honor of the harvest-moon."
- "He did not pay too much attention to the reasons for the shops being unusually busy, although he had been told by Apulius that most people were now in the throes of preparation for the festival of Satanalia."
- "By this time you probably have your own private The Exorcist experience story to add to a lengthening collection of "satanalia '74.""
Etymology
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Synonyms
Saturnalia
emphasizing the immorality of the celebration