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Blithe vs Jubilee - What's the difference?

blithe | jubilee |

As an adjective blithe

is (dated or literary) happy, cheerful.

As a verb jubilee is

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blithe

English

Adjective

(er)
  • (dated or literary) Happy, cheerful.
  • Indifferent, careless, showing a lack of concern.
    • She had a blithe disregard of cultures outside the United States.

    Derived terms

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    Related terms

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    jubilee

    English

    (wikipedia jubilee)

    Alternative forms

    * jubile

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • * 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.
  • A fiftieth anniversary.
  • (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.
  • A time of celebration or rejoicing.
  • (obsolete) A period of fifty years; a half-century.
  • * 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.

    Derived terms

    * silver jubilee

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