Trinity Sunday

English

Etymology

Trinity (“the Christian Holy Trinity”) + Sunday

Proper noun

Trinity Sunday (plural Trinity Sundays)

  1. The Sunday after Whitsunday/Pentecost in the Western Christian tradition (or the Sunday of Pentecost in the Eastern Christian tradition), observed as a liturgical feast in honor of the Holy Trinity.
    Synonym: (shortening) Trinity
    • 1852–1854, Charles Dickens, chapter XVIII, in A Child's History of England‎[1], London: Chapman & Hall, published 1905:
      He [Edward the Black Prince] lived to come home and make himself popular with the people and Parliament, and he died on Trinity Sunday, the eighth of June, one thousand three hundred and seventy-six, at forty-six years old.

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