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Christmaslessness en · NOUN

Etymology

From Christmasless + -ness.

Meanings

  1. (rare, uncountable) Absence of Christmas.
    • "You mean ... you don't have Christmas? But that's so sad." I can't have been more than seven years old the first time somebody commiserated with my Christmaslessness. 1996, David Frum, “The Spirit of Hannukah”, in What's Right, Toronto: Random House of Canada, →ISBN, page 277:
    • Parliament passed a law in June 1647 banning any celebration of Christmas at all. […] Old Father Christmas himself became a symbol of the old England that must be protected in this time of Christmaslessness. Once again, even when Christmas was outlawed, we see people harking back to a forgotten glorious age of Ye Olde Christmas Celebration. 2017, Paul Kerensa, Hark! The Biography of Christmas, Oxford: Lion Hudson, →ISBN, pages 136–137: