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1.
A festival commemorating the announcement of the Incarnation by the angel Gabriel to the Virgin Mary; a quarter day in England, Wales, and Ireland.  Synonyms: Annunciation Day, Lady Day, March 25.
2.
(Christianity) the announcement to the Virgin Mary by the angel Gabriel of the incarnation of Christ.
3.
A formal public statement.  Synonyms: announcement, declaration, proclamation.  "A declaration of independence"



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... is always cool in summer," said a painter. "You can study Perugino's exquisite 'Annunciation' and other gems of the Umbrian school, and thus blend Art ...
— Lippincott's Magazine, Volume 11, No. 26, May, 1873 • Various

... the style of the New Testament Scriptures. We find in the New Testament no other fundamental article than that of which the apostle Paul says, that other foundation can no man lay than that is laid—the annunciation of Jesus as ...
— Orthodoxy: Its Truths And Errors • James Freeman Clarke

... common. And Esther was rather something apart, rare. If I liken her to a lily, I do not mean those fair white lilies which painters throw at the feet of Franciscan monks, and dedicate also to the Virgin,—Annunciation lilies, so called. They are common too, and rather specially emblems of purity. What I am thinking of, and what Pitt was thinking of, is, on the contrary, one of those unique exotic lilies, which are as much wonders of colour as marvels of grace; apart, reserved, pure, also lofty, and delicate to ...
— A Red Wallflower • Susan Warner

... commemorating the facts of the life, death and resurrection were primarily commemorative of the Redeemer and secondarily of His Mother. Long before the institution of her feast, the cultus of Mary was almost universal. The feast of the Annunciation falls on the 25th March with us. Its date depends entirely on the date of Christmas, but the birth of Christ was not always placed in calendars on the ...
— The Divine Office • Rev. E. J. Quigley

... had reached the kitchen; and soon after, the tread of Alison's high heels, and the pat of the crutch-handled cane which served at once to prop and to guide her footsteps, were heard upon the stairs,—an annunciation which continued for some time ere she fairly ...
— Old Mortality, Complete, Illustrated • Sir Walter Scott


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