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Yom Kippur|jɒm ˈkɪpə(r), kɪˈpʊə(r)|
Also 9 Jaumkipur.
[a. Heb. Yōm Kippūr, f. yōm day + kippūr atonement.]
The Day of Atonement, the annual Jewish fast day of repentance and expiation that ends the Ten Days of Penitence.
1854Asmonean 6 Oct. 198/3, I will tell thee now why the Jews in Gneson do not wear the kittel at Jaumkipur. 1878Harper's Oct. 768/2 This..is a Shophar, such as is blown in the synagogues on the Jewish New Year..and the Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur). 1907I. Zangwill Ghetto Comedies 20 With a woman Yom Kippur is a wonder-working day. 1922Joyce Ulysses 149 Their butteries and larders. I'd like to see them do the black fast Yom Kippur. 1941Contemp. Jewish Record IV. 429/2 Last Yom Kippur..Nazi elite guards..evicted Jews from a synagogue in Szczucin. 1974Ann. Reg. 1973 200 Yom Kippur (the Day of Atonement), when there is no public transport [in Israel] or private or public business and even non-observant Jews stay at home, fell on 6 October. 1981C. MacLeod Palace Guard xii. 89 ‘Have you ever in your life seen anybody eat the way he does?’ ‘Yes, my Uncle Hymie on the night after Yom Kippur.’
b. Comb. Yom Kippur War, an Arab-Israeli war that began on Yom Kippur on 6 October 1973 and ended in the same month.
1973Guardian 29 Oct. 3/5 The Yom Kippur war had given them [sc. the superpowers] a greater hold over their respective clients. 1980‘E. Anthony’ Defector v. 101 We [Russians] made very good use of the opportunities given to us by the Yom Kippur war. |