All Saintsn.

Brit.

/ˌɔːl ˈseɪnts/, U.S.

/ˌɔl ˈseɪnts/,

/ˌɑl ˈseɪnts/

Forms: Middle English Alle Seintis, 1500s All Saincts, 1500s Allsayntes, 1500s All Saynts, 1500s Alsayntes, 1500s Alsynts, 1500s–1600s All Saintes, 1500s– All Saints, 1600s– All-Saints.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: all adj., saint n.

Etymology: < all adj. + the plural of saint n. With sense 2 compare earlier All-Hallows n. 2 and discussion at that entry. Compare also All Souls n. and later All Saints' Day n. Compare Anglo-Norman la Tous Seinz (also les Tous Seinz ), Old French la Toz Sainz (a1205), Middle French la Toussainctz , la Toussaints , Middle French, French Toussaint Toussaint n.

Christian Church.

1. The saints (saint n. 2a) collectively. Cf. All-Hallows n. 1.In early use not a fixed collocation.

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society > faith > aspects of faith > holiness > saint > [noun] > collective

All-HallowsOE

blessedc1200

All Saintsa1398

sanctified1620

sainthood1818

saintdom1842

a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xix. cxviii. 1358 He knowiþ wiþ alle seintes, what is lengþe and brede, highnesse and depnes.

c1400 (c1378) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Laud 581) (1869) B. v. l. 516 Alle seyntes in heuene songen at ones, ‘Homines & iumenta saluabis.’

c1425 Bk. Found. St. Bartholomew's (1923) 32 (MED) With grete office of angely mynystracyoun and with solempne worschipe of deuocyoun of all seyntes.

1435 in J. F. South & D. Power Memorials Craft of Surg. (1886) App. 317 Ȝe shal swere that ȝe schal wel & truly bihaue you in worchinge of the craft of Cirurgie..so god ȝou helpe and alle seintis.

c1475 Wisdom (Folger) (1969) l. 1056 Gode sethe þis man tyll..‘Ande þat plesythe me more..Than yf my modyr and all sentys preyde for þe.’

1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. xxxix. f. lxviii^v/2 In a shorte space she arryued before Calays thre dayes before the feest of Alsayntes.

1530 T. More Dyaloge Dyuers Maters (new ed.) iv. ii. f. cxxiv^v Euery man well woteth how reuerently hym selfe worshypped both our lady and all sayntys.

1656 W. Dugdale Antiq. Warwickshire 294/2 The Church (dedicated to All Saints) was originally but a Chapell.

1695 T. Tanner Notitia Monastica 106 Will. Courtney..founded a College here to the honour of All-Saints.

1720 A. Collins Baronettage of Eng. I. 61 Upon the Feast of All Saints.

1795 D. Macpherson in Andrew of Wyntoun Oryg. Cron. Scotl. I. Gloss. Halow-fair is held on the day of all saints.

1843 Court, Lady's Mag., Monthly Critic & Museum Mar. 123 Having faithfully and verily writ..these passages of the times past, I call on all saints to take it into their holy keeping.

1872 N. Macleod Char. Sketches (1876) 191 St. Michael and all saints hear me!

1909 C. A. Mason Spell of Italy xiii. 253 The kneeling company praying to all saints.

1975 J. Clavell Shōgun liii. 676 Jesu, Mother of God and all saints, let that not happen!

2003 Church Times 21 Nov. 11/2 Today, happily, the only two churches of the city dedicated to All Saints..keep the feast together.

2. All Saints' Day; the period around this. Cf. All-Hallows n. 2.

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society > faith > worship > liturgical year > feast, festival > specific Christian festivals > All Saints (1 November) > [noun]

All-HallowsOE

All Hallows' MassOE

All Hallows' Day?c1225

Hallowmas1389

All Hallow Day1399

All Hallowmass?a1400

All Saintsa1400

All Saints' Day1562

Hallow-day1596

All Saints' mass1823

Toussaint1930

a1400 Sarum Cal. (Bodl.) in W. Maskell Monumenta Ritualia Ecclesiae Anglicanae (1882) III. 208 Alle Seintis.

1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. lxxiii. f. xxxviii^v/2 Ther [he] lodged and taryed more than a moneth abydinge prouysion for his host, the which was put on the see bytwene saynt Andrewes tyde and Allsayntes [Fr. entre la sainct andry et la toussainctz].

1580 T. Tusser Fiue Hundred Pointes Good Husbandrie (new ed.) f. 13 All Saints [margin ‘Hallomas’] doe laie, for porke and souse, for sprats and spurlings, for their house.

1611 in M. C. Questier Newslett. Archpresbyterate G. Birkhead (1998) 127 The savoy Imbassadour went to the Court this day which is the 8^ve of all saints.

1677 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Oxford-shire 240 Ploughing in the bean-brush at All-Saints.

1712 I. Newton Let. 13 Oct. in Corr. (1975) V. 346 The neighbours have of late years eaten the fallow Lings with great cattel between Low Sunday & All Saints.

1800 Chronological Index for Butler's Lives Saints 7 On all Saints, Nov. 1.

1833 K. H. Digby Mores Catholici iv. vii. 201 When de la Moote..was suddenly attacked with a fatal pleurisy after mass on All-Saints.

1859 W. B. Ullathorne in C. Butler Life & Times Bp. Ullathorne (1926) I. ix. 229 We arrived on All Saints at midnight.

1909 H. Belloc Marie Antoinette ii. 19 In the morning of that All Saints, a little after eight, the altars stood prepared.

1969 R. Godden In this House of Brede xv. 342 All Saints was a day of joy.

1993 A. Higgins Lions of Grunewald xxiv. 145 The frosty Monday after All Saints.

Compounds

With the first element in the genitive plural form. See also All Saints' Day n.

All Saints' Eve n. (also †All Saints' Even) = All Hallows' Eve n. at All-Hallows n. Compounds 1.

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society > faith > worship > liturgical year > feast, festival > specific Christian festivals > Halloween (31 October) > [noun]

All Hallow Evec1325

All Hallows' Eve1447

All Saints' Eve?c1550

Halloween1556

Nut-crack Night1731

?c1550 in E. Corbett Hist. Spelsbury (1962) vi. 119 Upon the feast of All Saints even, all the brethren of every hylde come together to their hyldes.

1641 T. Hayne tr. M. Adam Life & Death Dr. Martin Luther 11 These [propositions] he publikely affixed at the Church next to the Castle of Wittenberg, on All Saints Eve, An. 1517.

1794 J. Sinclair Statist. Acct. Scotl. XI. 621 On All-Saints Even, they set up bonfires in every village.

1886 G. F. Jackson & C. S. Burne Shropshire Folk-lore III. xxviii. 381 At Ripon, All Saints' Eve is called Cake Night, and a cake is baked in each household for every member of the family.

1962 C. Wilson Strength to Dream v. 141 The legend attached to the place declares that they [sc. the two statues] get up on All Saints' Eve and walk across to the cottage in which the painter lives.

2010 Irish Times 25 Nov. 17/3 The book unfurls over three days—All Saints' Eve, All Saints' Day and All Souls' Day—significant dates to O'Brien's Agnes.

All Saints' mass n. = All Hallowmass n. at All-Hallows n. Compounds 2.

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society > faith > worship > liturgical year > feast, festival > specific Christian festivals > All Saints (1 November) > [noun]

All-HallowsOE

All Hallows' MassOE

All Hallows' Day?c1225

Hallowmas1389

All Hallow Day1399

All Hallowmass?a1400

All Saintsa1400

All Saints' Day1562

Hallow-day1596

All Saints' mass1823

Toussaint1930

1823 D. Scot Murray's Hist. European Langs. I. 87 Al-haligen-maesse, All-saints-mass, All-hallow-mass.

1871 R. Buchanan Land of Lorne II. vi. 191 After All Saints' mass the King sailed his ships to Medalland Harbour.

1922 H. Harper tr. H. Bordeaux House that Died ix. 168 From a point of vantage on this knoll I watched the people coming up to celebrate All Saints' Mass.

2004 E. McGraw Good Life 154 We'll celebrate the All Saints mass... We always do. But the Halloween party is harmless.

All Saints' Night n. the night or evening of All Saints' Day; = All Souls' Eve n.

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the world > time > period > year > [noun] > specific days of the year

Candlemas1014

May Day1267

All Souls' Dayc1300

midsummer evena1400

firstc1400

Beltane1424

midsummer eve1426

quarter day1435

Beltane1456

mid-Sundaya1475

madding-day1568

Lord Mayor's day1591

Barnaby bright1595

Lammas-eve1597

All Saints' Night1607

Handsel Monday1635

distaff's day1648

long Barnabya1657

St. Valentine's eve1671

leet-day1690

All Fools' Day1702

Boxing Day1743

April Fool's Day1748

Royal Oak Day1759

box day1765

Oak-apple Day1802

All Souls' Eve1805

mischief night1830

Shick-shack Day1847

chalk-back day1851

call night1864

Nut-Monday1867

Arbor Day1872

April Fool's1873

Labour Day1884

Martinmas Sunday1885

call day1886

Samhain1888

Juneteenth1890

Mother's Day1890

Father's Day1908

Thinking Day1927

Punkie night1931

Tweede Nuwejaar1947

1607 E. Grimeston tr. J. de Serres in tr. Gen. Inuentorie Hist. France ii. 718 He makes a leuy of men..and on all Saints night surpriseth the Towne of Carmagnole.

1783 Gentleman's Mag. July 578/2 I recollect one more [custom],..viz. that prevailing amongst the Roman Catholics of lighting fires upon the hills on All Saints night.

1833 Knickerbocker Sept. 191 The ‘Pookah’ is an imaginary monster, supposed to be all powerful on All Saints' Night.

1914 G. W. Read Médoc in Moor ii. 30 Many a village near us had its story of the dead who rose on All Saints' Night to swim on the chilly waters.

2003 D. M. Rosman Evol. Eng. Churches, 1500–2000 ii. 44 For decades after Elizabeth came to the throne church bells were rung on All Saints night to comfort souls in purgatory.

All Saints' Summer n. = All-Hallown Summer n. at All-Hallows n. Compounds 1. Now rare.

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the world > time > period > year > season > [noun] > periods of unseasonal weather

Michaelmas spring1557

All-Hallown Summer1598

St Martin's Summera1616

autumn-spring1639

go-summer1649

Indian summer1790

squaw winter1847

All Saints' Summer1861

Martin's summer1864

Martinmas summer1881

1861 Three All-Saints' Summers 6 Not the Spring-tide's passion-glow, But ‘All-Saints’ Summers' holy peace of love.

1967 R. W. Fairbridge Encycl. Atmospheric Sci. & Astrogeol. 478/1 In western Europe, a similar weather condition is known variously as All-Hallow Summer, All Saints' Summer..and Old Wives' Summer.

All Saints' tide n. = All-Hallowtide n. at All-Hallows n. Compounds 2.

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society > faith > worship > liturgical year > feast, festival > specific Christian festivals > All Saints (1 November) > [noun] > season of

All Hallows' tideOE

All-Hallowtide1471

Hallow-tidea1500

Hollantide1573

All Saints' tide1587

1587 T. Dawson Good Huswifes Iewell (new ed.) sig. F6^v They vncouer the rootes after all Saintes tide.

1728 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. (ed. 4) Alhollaandtide, corruptly for Alhallows Tide, q.d. all holy Men, or All Saints Tide.

1873 Musical Times 16 333/2 Neither hymn nor anthem seemed large enough to express, in All Saints' Church, at All Saints' tide the exalted sentiment and the high spiritual thought suggested by the place and occasion.

1934 H. F. B. Mackay Followers in Way 190 The [chapel restoration] work was finished by All Saints-tide, 1846.

2007 M. Earey et al. Connecting with Baptism 137 The Church in the West has traditionally associated baptism with Easter, but in other traditions it has been linked with Epiphany..and with All Saints' tide.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	all saints
释义	All Saintsn. Brit. /ˌɔːl ˈseɪnts/, U.S. /ˌɔl ˈseɪnts/, /ˌɑl ˈseɪnts/ Forms: Middle English Alle Seintis, 1500s All Saincts, 1500s Allsayntes, 1500s All Saynts, 1500s Alsayntes, 1500s Alsynts, 1500s–1600s All Saintes, 1500s– All Saints, 1600s– All-Saints. Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: all adj., saint n. Etymology: < all adj. + the plural of saint n. With sense 2 compare earlier All-Hallows n. 2 and discussion at that entry. Compare also All Souls n. and later All Saints' Day n. Compare Anglo-Norman la Tous Seinz (also les Tous Seinz ), Old French la Toz Sainz (a1205), Middle French la Toussainctz , la Toussaints , Middle French, French Toussaint Toussaint n. Christian Church. 1. The saints (saint n. 2a) collectively. Cf. All-Hallows n. 1.In early use not a fixed collocation. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > holiness > saint > [noun] > collective All-HallowsOE blessedc1200 All Saintsa1398 sanctified1620 sainthood1818 saintdom1842 a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xix. cxviii. 1358 He knowiþ wiþ alle seintes, what is lengþe and brede, highnesse and depnes. c1400 (c1378) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Laud 581) (1869) B. v. l. 516 Alle seyntes in heuene songen at ones, ‘Homines & iumenta saluabis.’ c1425 Bk. Found. St. Bartholomew's (1923) 32 (MED) With grete office of angely mynystracyoun and with solempne worschipe of deuocyoun of all seyntes. 1435 in J. F. South & D. Power Memorials Craft of Surg. (1886) App. 317 Ȝe shal swere that ȝe schal wel & truly bihaue you in worchinge of the craft of Cirurgie..so god ȝou helpe and alle seintis. c1475 Wisdom (Folger) (1969) l. 1056 Gode sethe þis man tyll..‘Ande þat plesythe me more..Than yf my modyr and all sentys preyde for þe.’ 1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. xxxix. f. lxviii^v/2 In a shorte space she arryued before Calays thre dayes before the feest of Alsayntes. 1530 T. More Dyaloge Dyuers Maters (new ed.) iv. ii. f. cxxiv^v Euery man well woteth how reuerently hym selfe worshypped both our lady and all sayntys. 1656 W. Dugdale Antiq. Warwickshire 294/2 The Church (dedicated to All Saints) was originally but a Chapell. 1695 T. Tanner Notitia Monastica 106 Will. Courtney..founded a College here to the honour of All-Saints. 1720 A. Collins Baronettage of Eng. I. 61 Upon the Feast of All Saints. 1795 D. Macpherson in Andrew of Wyntoun Oryg. Cron. Scotl. I. Gloss. Halow-fair is held on the day of all saints. 1843 Court, Lady's Mag., Monthly Critic & Museum Mar. 123 Having faithfully and verily writ..these passages of the times past, I call on all saints to take it into their holy keeping. 1872 N. Macleod Char. Sketches (1876) 191 St. Michael and all saints hear me! 1909 C. A. Mason Spell of Italy xiii. 253 The kneeling company praying to all saints. 1975 J. Clavell Shōgun liii. 676 Jesu, Mother of God and all saints, let that not happen! 2003 Church Times 21 Nov. 11/2 Today, happily, the only two churches of the city dedicated to All Saints..keep the feast together. 2. All Saints' Day; the period around this. Cf. All-Hallows n. 2. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > liturgical year > feast, festival > specific Christian festivals > All Saints (1 November) > [noun] All-HallowsOE All Hallows' MassOE All Hallows' Day?c1225 Hallowmas1389 All Hallow Day1399 All Hallowmass?a1400 All Saintsa1400 All Saints' Day1562 Hallow-day1596 All Saints' mass1823 Toussaint1930 a1400 Sarum Cal. (Bodl.) in W. Maskell Monumenta Ritualia Ecclesiae Anglicanae (1882) III. 208 Alle Seintis. 1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. lxxiii. f. xxxviii^v/2 Ther [he] lodged and taryed more than a moneth abydinge prouysion for his host, the which was put on the see bytwene saynt Andrewes tyde and Allsayntes [Fr. entre la sainct andry et la toussainctz]. 1580 T. Tusser Fiue Hundred Pointes Good Husbandrie (new ed.) f. 13 All Saints [margin ‘Hallomas’] doe laie, for porke and souse, for sprats and spurlings, for their house. 1611 in M. C. Questier Newslett. Archpresbyterate G. Birkhead (1998) 127 The savoy Imbassadour went to the Court this day which is the 8^ve of all saints. 1677 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Oxford-shire 240 Ploughing in the bean-brush at All-Saints. 1712 I. Newton Let. 13 Oct. in Corr. (1975) V. 346 The neighbours have of late years eaten the fallow Lings with great cattel between Low Sunday & All Saints. 1800 Chronological Index for Butler's Lives Saints 7 On all Saints, Nov. 1. 1833 K. H. Digby Mores Catholici iv. vii. 201 When de la Moote..was suddenly attacked with a fatal pleurisy after mass on All-Saints. 1859 W. B. Ullathorne in C. Butler Life & Times Bp. Ullathorne (1926) I. ix. 229 We arrived on All Saints at midnight. 1909 H. Belloc Marie Antoinette ii. 19 In the morning of that All Saints, a little after eight, the altars stood prepared. 1969 R. Godden In this House of Brede xv. 342 All Saints was a day of joy. 1993 A. Higgins Lions of Grunewald xxiv. 145 The frosty Monday after All Saints. Compounds With the first element in the genitive plural form. See also All Saints' Day n. All Saints' Eve n. (also †All Saints' Even) = All Hallows' Eve n. at All-Hallows n. Compounds 1. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > liturgical year > feast, festival > specific Christian festivals > Halloween (31 October) > [noun] All Hallow Evec1325 All Hallows' Eve1447 All Saints' Eve?c1550 Halloween1556 Nut-crack Night1731 ?c1550 in E. Corbett Hist. Spelsbury (1962) vi. 119 Upon the feast of All Saints even, all the brethren of every hylde come together to their hyldes. 1641 T. Hayne tr. M. Adam Life & Death Dr. Martin Luther 11 These [propositions] he publikely affixed at the Church next to the Castle of Wittenberg, on All Saints Eve, An. 1517. 1794 J. Sinclair Statist. Acct. Scotl. XI. 621 On All-Saints Even, they set up bonfires in every village. 1886 G. F. Jackson & C. S. Burne Shropshire Folk-lore III. xxviii. 381 At Ripon, All Saints' Eve is called Cake Night, and a cake is baked in each household for every member of the family. 1962 C. Wilson Strength to Dream v. 141 The legend attached to the place declares that they [sc. the two statues] get up on All Saints' Eve and walk across to the cottage in which the painter lives. 2010 Irish Times 25 Nov. 17/3 The book unfurls over three days—All Saints' Eve, All Saints' Day and All Souls' Day—significant dates to O'Brien's Agnes. All Saints' mass n. = All Hallowmass n. at All-Hallows n. Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > liturgical year > feast, festival > specific Christian festivals > All Saints (1 November) > [noun] All-HallowsOE All Hallows' MassOE All Hallows' Day?c1225 Hallowmas1389 All Hallow Day1399 All Hallowmass?a1400 All Saintsa1400 All Saints' Day1562 Hallow-day1596 All Saints' mass1823 Toussaint1930 1823 D. Scot Murray's Hist. European Langs. I. 87 Al-haligen-maesse, All-saints-mass, All-hallow-mass. 1871 R. Buchanan Land of Lorne II. vi. 191 After All Saints' mass the King sailed his ships to Medalland Harbour. 1922 H. Harper tr. H. Bordeaux House that Died ix. 168 From a point of vantage on this knoll I watched the people coming up to celebrate All Saints' Mass. 2004 E. McGraw Good Life 154 We'll celebrate the All Saints mass... We always do. But the Halloween party is harmless. All Saints' Night n. the night or evening of All Saints' Day; = All Souls' Eve n. ΘΚΠ the world > time > period > year > [noun] > specific days of the year Candlemas1014 May Day1267 All Souls' Dayc1300 midsummer evena1400 firstc1400 Beltane1424 midsummer eve1426 quarter day1435 Beltane1456 mid-Sundaya1475 madding-day1568 Lord Mayor's day1591 Barnaby bright1595 Lammas-eve1597 All Saints' Night1607 Handsel Monday1635 distaff's day1648 long Barnabya1657 St. Valentine's eve1671 leet-day1690 All Fools' Day1702 Boxing Day1743 April Fool's Day1748 Royal Oak Day1759 box day1765 Oak-apple Day1802 All Souls' Eve1805 mischief night1830 Shick-shack Day1847 chalk-back day1851 call night1864 Nut-Monday1867 Arbor Day1872 April Fool's1873 Labour Day1884 Martinmas Sunday1885 call day1886 Samhain1888 Juneteenth1890 Mother's Day1890 Father's Day1908 Thinking Day1927 Punkie night1931 Tweede Nuwejaar1947 1607 E. Grimeston tr. J. de Serres in tr. Gen. Inuentorie Hist. France ii. 718 He makes a leuy of men..and on all Saints night surpriseth the Towne of Carmagnole. 1783 Gentleman's Mag. July 578/2 I recollect one more [custom],..viz. that prevailing amongst the Roman Catholics of lighting fires upon the hills on All Saints night. 1833 Knickerbocker Sept. 191 The ‘Pookah’ is an imaginary monster, supposed to be all powerful on All Saints' Night. 1914 G. W. Read Médoc in Moor ii. 30 Many a village near us had its story of the dead who rose on All Saints' Night to swim on the chilly waters. 2003 D. M. Rosman Evol. Eng. Churches, 1500–2000 ii. 44 For decades after Elizabeth came to the throne church bells were rung on All Saints night to comfort souls in purgatory. All Saints' Summer n. = All-Hallown Summer n. at All-Hallows n. Compounds 1. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > time > period > year > season > [noun] > periods of unseasonal weather Michaelmas spring1557 All-Hallown Summer1598 St Martin's Summera1616 autumn-spring1639 go-summer1649 Indian summer1790 squaw winter1847 All Saints' Summer1861 Martin's summer1864 Martinmas summer1881 1861 Three All-Saints' Summers 6 Not the Spring-tide's passion-glow, But ‘All-Saints’ Summers' holy peace of love. 1967 R. W. Fairbridge Encycl. Atmospheric Sci. & Astrogeol. 478/1 In western Europe, a similar weather condition is known variously as All-Hallow Summer, All Saints' Summer..and Old Wives' Summer. All Saints' tide n. = All-Hallowtide n. at All-Hallows n. Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > liturgical year > feast, festival > specific Christian festivals > All Saints (1 November) > [noun] > season of All Hallows' tideOE All-Hallowtide1471 Hallow-tidea1500 Hollantide1573 All Saints' tide1587 1587 T. Dawson Good Huswifes Iewell (new ed.) sig. F6^v They vncouer the rootes after all Saintes tide. 1728 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. (ed. 4) Alhollaandtide, corruptly for Alhallows Tide, q.d. all holy Men, or All Saints Tide. 1873 Musical Times 16 333/2 Neither hymn nor anthem seemed large enough to express, in All Saints' Church, at All Saints' tide the exalted sentiment and the high spiritual thought suggested by the place and occasion. 1934 H. F. B. Mackay Followers in Way 190 The [chapel restoration] work was finished by All Saints-tide, 1846. 2007 M. Earey et al. Connecting with Baptism 137 The Church in the West has traditionally associated baptism with Easter, but in other traditions it has been linked with Epiphany..and with All Saints' tide. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.a1398
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