Jubilee vs Jordan - What's the difference?
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* 2009 , (Diarmaid MacCulloch), A History of Christianity , Penguin 2010, p. 120:
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:
A country in the Middle East. Official name: Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan.
A river of the Middle East, mentioned in the Bible, that empties into the Dead Sea, and after which the country is named.
; in the Middle Ages given to children baptized with Jordan water brought by Crusaders.
* 1989 (Jeanette Winterson), Sexing the Cherry , Grove Press 1998, ISBN 0802135781, pages 3-4:
derived from the male given name.
used since mid-20th century.
As a verb jubilee
is .As a noun jordan is
(obsolete) a pot or vessel with a large neck, formerly used by physicians and alchemists.jubilee
English
(wikipedia jubilee)Alternative forms
* jubileNoun
(en noun)- 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.
- 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 jubileeReferences
jordan
English
(wikipedia Jordan)Proper noun
(s)- I call him Jordan and it will do. He has no other name before or after. What was there to call him, fished as he was from the stinking Thames? A child can't be called Thames, no and not Nile either, for all his likeness to Moses. But I wanted to given him a river name, a name not bound to anything, just as the waters aren't bound to anything.
