Definitions
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- noun a Christian feast day honoring all the saints; first observed in 835
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There is good reason to believe, that a royal proclamation issued some time after, by which all manner of plays and interludes were forbidden to be represented till after the ensuing hallowmass, was dictated by similar reasons of state with the prohibition of popular and unlicensed preaching.
Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth Lucy Aikin 1822
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