relic sunday
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.36 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
4
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A Sunday when a church's relics are especially venerated.
Example Sentences
- "The 23. of Henry the Seventh, the 9. of July, beinge relyke sonday, there was sene at Calleys an innumerable swarme of whit butterflyes cominge out of the north-este [...]."
- "On Relic Sunday, an annual day whereon all the canons, clerks, and singing men were wont to go round the church in procession, every one carrying a relic, Testwood's offences rose very high."