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noun

Anniversary n. (pl. anniversaries)

The annual return of the day on which any notable event took place, or is wont to be celebrated; as, the anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.

(R. C. Ch.) The day on which Mass is said yearly for the soul of a deceased person; the commemoration of some sacred event, as the dedication of a church or the consecration of a pope.

The celebration which takes place on an anniversary day.

adjective

Anniversary adj. Returning with the year, at a stated time; annual; yearly; as, an anniversary feast.

Anniversary day (R. C. Ch.). See Anniversary, n., 2.

Anniversary week, that week in the year in which the annual meetings of religious and benevolent societies are held in Boston and New York. (Eastern U. S.)

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Etymology of 'Anniversary'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Anniversary" Quotes from Famous Books

... in congregations before daybreak, and from the hand of none but the president, the sacrament of the Eucharist, which the Lord both commanded to be done at mealtimes and enjoined to be taken by all alike. As often as the anniversary comes round, we make offerings for the dead as birthday honors. We count shouting or kneeling in worship on the Lord's day to be unlawful. We rejoice in the same privilege also from Easter to Whitsunday. We feel pained should any wine or bread, even though our ...

— The Last Reformation • F. G. [Frederick George] Smith

... with Mary, and for important matters of business discussion. I would have been in the way. I walked out to Tree Hill and back, had a fight with myself about coming in, but knew I shouldn't. I came down purposely on the twenty ninth, the anniversary of Mary's return ...

— Miss Gibbie Gault • Kate Langley Bosher

... woman longer than other creatures, whose young being able to subsist of themselves, before the time of procreation returns again, the conjugal bond dissolves of itself, and they are at liberty, till Hymen at his usual anniversary season summons them again to chuse new mates. Wherein one cannot but admire the wisdom of the great Creator, who having given to man foresight, and an ability to lay up for the future, as well as to supply the present necessity, hath made it necessary, ...

— Two Treatises of Government • John Locke

... a great occasion in the life of England's queen, that of the fiftieth anniversary of her reign, a year of holiday and festivity that extended to all quarters of the world, for the broad girdle of British dominion had during her reign extended to embrace the globe. India led the way, the ...

— Historical Tales, Vol. 4 (of 15) - The Romance of Reality • Charles Morris

... born of her first marriage, and like her ambitious and dissolute, entered into her designs. That year (probably the year 30) Antipas was at Machero on the anniversary of his birthday. Herod the Great had constructed in the interior of the fortress a magnificent palace, where the tetrarch frequently resided.[1] He gave a great feast there, during which Salome executed one of those ...

— The Life of Jesus • Ernest Renan

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