black mass
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.77 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A ritual, allegedly celebrated by witches, characterized by the inversion of the Traditional Latin Mass celebrated by the Roman Catholic Church.
noun
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see black, mass; especially, a dark amorphous blob.
Example Sentences
- "An enormous number of monks and priests gave themselves up to sorcery, and there was no lack of apostate priests to perform the ceremonies of the Black Mass."
- "As a parish priest in England he had dabbled in the black arts, seduced a number of his congregation from their faith and finally celebrated the Black Mass."
- "Local lore held that the quarry had once been the site of black masses."
- "Elmos and Maureen had draped their room in some old purple rags and were about to start a black mass when the police arrived."
- "Generals gathered in their masses / Just like witches at black masses"
- "The paranormal investigators then aimed their cameras in the direction from which the black mass had been seen emerging."