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Ascension Day

NOUN
Holy Thursday
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The eurozone’s data calendar will be light, while Ascension Day on Thursday will be a public holiday in a number of countries.

From The Wall Street Journal May 8, 2026

The monarch doesn’t celebrate the anniversary of the date she became queen, known as Ascension Day, as it is also the anniversary of her father’s death.

From Seattle Times Feb. 7, 2022

Festa della Sensa, a 12th-century observance of the city’s marriage to the sea on Ascension Day, offered only so much economic impact.

From Washington Post Aug. 15, 2019

As a famous letter written by his disciple Cuthbert tells it, the Venerable Bede lay surrounded by colleagues, who took their leave in order to attend the morning’s Ascension Day service.

From The New Yorker Oct. 29, 2014

Easter term beginneth seventeen days after Easter, endeth four days after the Ascension Day, and hath five returns, Quind.

From Elizabethan England From 'A Description of England,' by William Harrison by William Harrison




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