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Nativity vs Yule - What's the difference?

nativity | yule |

As nouns the difference between nativity and yule

is that nativity is (christianity) the birth of jesus as described in the gospels of matthew and luke while yule is (yule).

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

    yule

    English

    Proper noun

    (s)
  • Christmastide, the Christmas season, the Twelve Days of Christmas (between December 24th and January 6th).
  • A pagan wintertime holiday celebrated by Germanic peoples, particularly the Scandinavian and Anglo-Saxon peoples, or a modern reconstruction of this holiday celebrated by neo-pagans.

    • Derived terms

    * Yuletide * Yule log * Yule tree * Yule wreath

    See also

    * jolly * * Sabbat * Christmas *

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