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Jubilee vs Wingding - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between jubilee and wingding

is that jubilee is a special year of emancipation supposed to be kept every fifty years, when farming was abandoned and Hebrew slaves were set free while wingding is a fit or spasm.

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

    References

    wingding

    English

    Alternative forms

    * whingding * whing ding * wing ding

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A fit or spasm.
  • *1939 , (Raymond Chandler), The Big Sleep , Penguin 2011, p. 243:
  • *:‘She threw a wingding . Looked like a mild epileptic fit to me.’
  • A party.

    • Derived terms

    * throw a wingding