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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.
holyday en · NOUN
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(alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of holiday used to emphasize holiness.
You’ve heard the pitch (you can hardly escape it): We’ve turned a Christian holy'''day into a Roman holiday […]
1976 December 12, Chuck Thomas, “Behold the Bicentennial Bah! Humbug! Award”, in Ventura County Star-Free Press, 102nd year, number 37, Ventura, Calif., →ISSN, →OCLC, page C-10, column 5:This is the year to reverse the process of time and once again make the holiday a holyday; our Clausmas, a Christmas.
1948 December 19, George H. Sallaway, “Coming—‘Clausmas Day’”, in Our Sunday Visitor, Omaha Archdiocesan True Voice edition, volume XXXVII, number 34, Omaha, Neb., →OCLC, Religious section, page 9, column 3:This brings up the question raised by these scholars when they say "holyday" is the same as "sabbaths". So why would Paul repeat himself there? […] Most Jewish holydays were a number of days or weeks. Now ONE of THOSE days WAS a sabbath. […] So we see then, there are different sabbath days. Some included in the feasts and holy convocations. Does this mean THE OTHER DAYS weren't "HOLYDAYS"?
2004 April 17, John, “A New Look At Colissians^([sic]) 2:14-17”, in alt.religion.christian.adventist (Usenet), archived from the original on 19 Dec 2025:
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(alt-of, obsolete) Obsolete form of holiday.
[…] they were soon on the beautiful common leading to Roehampton, where villas, which seem, like Beatrice's idea of King Pedro for a husband, made only for holydays […]
1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Romance and Reality. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, pages 261–262:Having obtained the loan of a horse one holyday, he rode into a "faire forest," where, overcome by the heat, he lay down under the shade of a tree and meditated on his wretched state.
1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume I, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 55:
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