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Nativity vs Santon - What's the difference?

nativity | santon |

As nouns the difference between nativity and santon

is that nativity is (christianity) the birth of jesus as described in the gospels of matthew and luke while santon is a muslim holy man.

nativity

English

Noun

(nativities)
  • (also with capital initial) The birth of Jesus.
  • (Christianity) The festival celebrating the birth of Jesus; Christmas Day.
  • (astrology) Someone's birth considered as a means of astrology; a horoscope associated with a person's birth.
  • * 1971 , , Religion and the Decline of Magic , Folio Society 2012, p. 313:
    • Accordingly […] he was careful, as befitted a Fellow of the Royal Society, to note the exact nativity of his subjects whenever it could be discovered; in this way he hoped to make possible a scientific comparison of the course of human life with the astrological circumstances of its inception, and ths to arrive at a more exact astrology.

    Derived terms

    * nativity play * Nativity Scene

    Related terms

    * natal * natality * native

    See also

    * calvary

    santon

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A Muslim holy man.
  • * 1818 , John Keats, "To J. H. Reynolds, Esq.":
    • Part of the building was a chosen see, / Built by a banished santon of Chaldee [...].
  • In France (originally Provence), a small, hand-painted, terracotta figurine of a nativity character.
  • * 1974 , (Lawrence Durrell), Monsieur , Faber & Faber 1992, p. 49:
    • Also we had brought a huge family of little santons of painted terracotta for the crêche.

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