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Webster 1913 Edition
Jubilee
Ju′bi-lee
,Noun.
[F.
jubilé
, L. jubilaeus
, Gr. [GREEK], fr. Heb. yōbel
the blast of a trumpet, also the grand sabbatical year, which was announced by sound of trumpet.] 1.
(Jewish Hist.)
Every fiftieth year, being the year following the completion of each seventh sabbath of years, at which time all the slaves of Hebrew blood were liberated, and all lands which had been alienated during the whole period reverted to their former owners.
[In this sense spelled also, in some English Bibles,
jubile
.] Lev. xxv. 8-17.
2.
The joyful commemoration held on the fiftieth anniversary of any event;
as, the
jubilee
of Queen Victoria’s reign; the jubilee
of the American Board of Missions.3.
(R. C. Ch.)
A church solemnity or ceremony celebrated at Rome, at stated intervals, originally of one hundred years, but latterly of twenty-five; a plenary and extraordinary indulgence granted by the sovereign pontiff to the universal church. One invariable condition of granting this indulgence is the confession of sins and receiving of the eucharist.
4.
A season of general joy.
The town was all a
jubilee
of feasts. Dryden.
5.
A state of joy or exultation.
[R.]
“In the jubilee of his spirits.” Sir W. Scott.
Webster 1828 Edition
Jubilee
JU'BILEE
,Noun.
1.
Among the Jews, every fiftieth year, being the year following the revolution of seven weeks of years, at which time all the slaves were liberated,and all lands which had been alienated during the whole period,reverted to their former owners. This was a time of great rejoicing. Hence,
2.
A season of great public joy and festivity.3.
A church solemnity or ceremony celebrated at Rome, in which the pope grants plenary indulgence to sinners, or to as many as visit the churches of St. Peter and St. Paul at Rome.Definition 2024
Jubilee
Jubilee
English
Noun
Jubilee (plural Jubilees)
- (Jewish law) a year of rest, observed by the Israelites every 50 years
- (in Roman Catholicism) a holy year when people are encouraged to make a pilgrimage to Rome
Translations
a year of rest, observed by the Israelites every 50 years
jubilee
jubilee
English
Alternative forms
- jubile [16th-18th c.]
Noun
jubilee (plural jubilees)
- (Jewish historical) A special year of emancipation supposed to be kept every fifty years, when farming was abandoned and Hebrew slaves were set free. [from 14th c.]
- 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin 2010, p. 120:
- in the old Israel, there had supposedly been a system of ‘Jubilee’, a year in which all land should go back to the family to which it had originally belonged and during which all slaves should be released.
- 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin 2010, p. 120:
- A fiftieth anniversary. [from 14th c.]
- (Catholicism) A special year (originally held every hundred years, then fifty, and then fewer) in which remission from sin could be granted as well as indulgences upon making a pilgrimage to Rome. [from 15th c.]
- A time of celebration or rejoicing. [from 16th c.]
- (obsolete) A period of fifty years; a half-century. [17th-18th c.]
- 1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, I.5:
- How their faiths could decline so low, as to concede [...] that the felicity of their Paradise should consist in a Jubile of copulation, that is, a coition of one act prolonged unto fifty years.
- 1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, I.5:
Derived terms
Translations
a special anniversary
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a time of celebration or rejoicing
References
- ↑ Peake’s commentary on the Bible
- ↑ Mallory, J. P. and Adams, D. Q. (2006). The Oxford Introduction to Proto-Indo-European and the Proto-Indo-European World New York: Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19929668-2, p. 363.