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Christmaslessness
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English
Etymology
From en Christmasless ness.
Noun
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en rare Absence of Christmas.
en https://books.google.com/books?id=7g8VAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA277&dq=%22Christmaslessness%22 What's Right w:David Frum w:Random House of Canada Toronto 9780679307839 1996 The Spirit of Hannukah 277 "You mean ... you don't have Christmas? But that's so sad." I can't have been more than seven years old the first time somebody commiserated with my Christmaslessness.
en https://books.google.com/books?id=vts2DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA137&dq=%22Christmaslessness%22 Hark! The Biography of Christmas w:Paul Kerensa w:Lion Hudson Oxford 9780745980492 2017 136–137 Parliament passed a law in June 1647 banning any celebration of Christmas at all. Old Father Christmas himself became a symbol of the old England that must be protected in this time of Christmaslessness. Once again, even when Christmas was outlawed, we see people harking back to a forgotten glorious age of Ye Olde Christmas Celebration.