Jubilee vs Jubilant - What's the difference?
jubilee | jubilant |
* 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:
As a noun jubilee
is a special year of emancipation supposed to be kept every fifty years, when farming was abandoned and Hebrew slaves were set free.As an adjective jubilant is
in a state of elation.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.
