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Trinity +‎ -tide

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Trinitytide

  1. (Christianity) Trinity Sunday, the Sunday after Pentecost, or the period around it.
    • 1894, William Prideaux Courtney, “Mathias, Thomas James”, in Sidney Lee, editor, Dictionary of National Biography, volume 37, page 47:
      [] in 1779 he printed a Latin oration which he had delivered in the chapel of his college at Trinitytide.
    • 1998, H. E. J. Cowdrey, Pope Gregory VII, 1073–1085, page 178:
      Henry followed up these steps to build up his power in South Germany by planning a military campaign in Saxony against Rudolf. It was a concern of his Trinitytide court at Nuremberg, and of a subsequent visit to Mainz and the middle Rhineland.
  2. (Christianity, chiefly Anglicanism) The season of the liturgical year from Trinity Sunday to Advent.
    • 2021, Steven J. Lopes, “The worship of God in the beauty of holiness: A presentation of Divine Worship”, in Tracey Rowland, editor, The Anglican Patrimony in Catholic Communion: The Gift of the Ordinariates, →ISBN, page 59:
      Whereas the Extraordinary Form counts Sundays after Pentecost, Divine Worship follows the traditional Anglican practice of numbering Sundays after Trinity Sunday. Trinitytide concludes with the celebration of Christ the King on the Sunday prior to the first Sunday of Advent.