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Answer for the clue "The third month of the ecclesiastical year in the Jewish calendar (in May and June) ", 5 letters:
sivan

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Sivan ( Hebrew : סִיוָן , Standard Sivan Tiberian Sîwān ; from Akkadian simānu , meaning "Season; time") is the ninth month of the civil year and the third month of the ecclesiastical year on the Hebrew calendar . It is a spring month of 30 days. Sivan ...

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Sivan \Si"van\, n. [Heb. s[=i]v[=a]n.] The third month of the Jewish ecclesiastical year; -- supposed to correspond nearly with our month of June.

Usage examples of sivan.

He liked to surround himself with colourful, uncommon people, and so that night he had invited an arhat from Newvannia, a famous neurosinger, a renegade pilot of the Order named Sivan wi Mawi Sarkissian, and even five warrior-poets recently arrived from the planet Qallar.

He glanced over at the ghostly flames flickering in the fireplace, and he remembered how Sivan in his lightship had followed him from Farfara into the Vild.

And he was almost certain that Sivan had survived whatever tests that the Entity had put to him: as before on his journey from Farfara as Danlo moved further and further from the fading stars of the Entity he detected the composition waves of another lightship falling through the manifold.