Notes and Queries, Number 39, July 27, 1850

Notes and Queries, Number 39, July 27, 1850

Notes and Queries, Number 39, July 27, 1850Perhaps the following Note and Query on the much-disputed origin...
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Notes and Queries, Number 39, July 27, 1850

Notes and Queries, Number 39, July 27, 1850

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Notes and Queries, Number 39, July 27, 1850

Perhaps the following Note and Query on the much-disputed origin of the word Whitsunday, as used in our Liturgy, may find a place in your Journal. None of the etymologies of this word at present in vogue is at all satisfactory. They are 2. From the glorious light of heaven, sent down from the father of Lights on the day of Pentecost: and "those vast diffusions of light and knowledge, which were then shed upon the Apostles, in order to the enlightening of the world." (Wheatley.) Or, III. There are others who see that neither of these explanations can stand; because the ancient mode of spelling the word was not Whit-sunday, but Wit-sonday (as in Wickliff), or Wite-sonday (which is as old as Robert of Gloucester, c. A.D. 1270). Hence, 1. Versteran's explanation:That it is Wied Sunday, i.e. Sacred Sunday (from Saxon, wied, or wihed, a word I do not find in Bosworth's A.-S. Dict.; but so written in Brady's Clovis Calendaria, as below). But why should this day be distinguished as sacred beyond all other Sundays in the year? ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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