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Definition of: Pentecost
(pen′tə·kôst, -kost) noun
1. A Jewish festival occurring fifty days after the Passover; Shabuoth.
2. The feast of Whitsunday, commemorating the descent of the Holy Ghost upon the apostles on the Jewish Pentecost. Acts ii. [<LL pentecoste <Gk. pentēkostē (hēmera) the fiftieth (day) <pentēkonta fifty]
—pen′te·cos′tal adjective
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