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The 3rd Sunday before Lent (or the 9th before Easter)
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septuagesima
Word definitions for septuagesima in dictionaries
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
Septuagesima (in full, Septuagesima Sunday ) is the name for the ninth Sunday before Easter, the third before Ash Wednesday . The term is sometimes applied also to the period commonly called Shrovetide (the Pre-Lenten Season) that begins on this day and ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Septuagesima \Sep`tu*a*ges"i*ma\, n. [NL., fr. L. septuagesimus the seventieth, fr. septuaginta seventy.] (Eccl.) The third Sunday before Lent; -- so called because it is about seventy days before Easter.
Usage examples of septuagesima.
Advent, and on Septuagesima and Quinquagesima Sundays he shall serve out seasoning.
Christmas joys, even, sometimes, after Septuagesima had struck the note of penitence.