What does quinquagesimal mean?
Quinquagesimal means Of or related to a set of 50 people or items..
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Of or related to a set of 50 people or items..
Hence the time of our sorrow and affliction is fixed at forty days; the state of blessed joy which shall be hereafter is figured in the quinquagesimal festival, i.e. the fifty days from Easter to Pentecost.
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Quinquagesimal means Of or related to a set of 50 people or items..
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Hence the time of our sorrow and affliction is fixed at forty days; the state of blessed joy which shall be hereafter is figured in the quinquagesimal festival, i.e. the fifty days from Easter to Pentecost.
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