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Whitsuntide|ˈhwɪtsəntaɪd|
Forms (see also tide n.): 3 White-sune tide, wit sonentid, 3–4 witeson(e)-, 3–6 Wytson-, 4 whitson(e)-, Witsun-, 4–6 Witson-, Witte-, 5 Qhythson-, 5–6 Whytson-, (Witsenstyde), 5–8 Whitson-, 7– Whitsuntide. β. 4 Wissen-, 5 whisson(e)-, Whysson(e-, Whyssen-, 6 Whyson-, 9 dial. Whissontide.
[f. Whitsun + tide n.]
The season of Whit Sunday; Whit Sunday and the days immediately following.
c1205Lay. 31524 Hit ilomp an ane time to þan White⁓sune tide [later text Witsontime] þat þe king hehte of londen. 1297R. Glouc. (Rolls) 3111 Aȝen þe feste of witesontyd. a1330Rouland & V. (Abbotsf. Club) 16 At Ester, at Wissentide, And at seyn Iames day.., And in Yole. c1440Alphabet of Tales 76 On a tyme when þe grete Emperour Henrie..held his whisson-tyde. 1448Paston Lett. I. 70 Harry Goneld hath browth to me xls.,..and he seyth I xal have more or Qhythson tyd. 1484Caxton Chivalry v. 52 To make and adoube a knyȝt it apperteyneth the day of some grete feste as Crystemas, Eester, Whitsontyd. 1553in Sir W. Parker Hist. Long. Melford (1873) 97 At Witsenstyde. 1600Marston, etc. Jack Drum's Entert. i. (1601) A 3 b, Tis Whitson-tyde, and we must frolick it. 1710Steele Tatler No. 178 ⁋3 We wish..all our Customers a merry Whitsuntide. 1859Tennyson Marr. Geraint 145 Arthur on the Whitsuntide before Held court at old Caerleon upon Usk. 1916G. E. Buckle Life of Disraeli IV. i. 9 After Whitsuntide the general debate was resumed.
†b. Used in early versions of N.T. for Pentecost 1. Obs. (Cf. Whit Sunday 1 b.)
1382Wyclif 1 Cor. xvi. 8, I schal dwelle at Effecy, til to Witsuntide [Tindale, vntill witsontyde; 1551 wytsontyde].
c. attrib.
1609B. Jonson Silent Wom. iii. i, I would haue you get your Whitsontide-velvet-cap. 1611Coryat Crudities 9 A Whitsuntide foole..wearing a long coate, wherein there were many seuerall peeces of cloth of diuers colours. 1687in Jrnl. Friends' Hist. Soc. (1915) Oct. 182 Shee is willinge to sett out..after whitsuntide weeke soe called is ouer. c1755in B. Ward Hist. St. Edmund's Coll. (1893) 303 On all working days in ye Xmas and Whitsuntide Vacations. 1916G. E. Buckle Life of Disraeli IV. i. 7 The Whitsuntide recess [of Parliament] was approaching. |