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St. Andrewstide en · PROPN

Etymology

From St. Andrew + -s- + -tide.

Meanings

1. The feast day of Andrew the Apostle, 30 November, or the period around it.
   • Here, too, is enlightenment for readers of those recondite accounts of the Eton Wall Game which appear in The Times at St. Andrewstide. 1950, The Tablet, volume 196, page 72:
   • ‘Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men’. The non-inclusive language unfortunately persists, presumably because of the word play ‘fishermen’/‘fishers of men’, but nothing could be more inclusive than the celebration of St Andrewstide. 1998, Nicola Currie, Stuart Currie, Seasons and Saints for the Christian Year: Resources for Celebrating the Three-Year Lectionary with Children, →ISBN, page 100:
   • Although right up to St Andrewstide (30 November) 1075 concord had prevailed […], at Worms the bishops had suddenly and unwarrantedly turned upon the pope. 1998, H. E. J. Cowdrey, Pope Gregory VII, 1073–1085, page 216:

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