Jubilee

jubilee jubilée English Etymology See en jubilee. The proper noun sense (“London Underground line”) was named after the silver jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom (1926–2022) in 1977. Proper noun en rail transport A London Underground line which runs between Stratford in East London and Stanmore in northwest London, via the London Docklands, South Bank, and West End. Noun en jubilee (“(Jewish history) special year of emancipation supposed to be observed every fifty years; (Roman Catholicism) special year in which plenary indulgences and remission from sin can be granted”) 4th 44 94 [T]hough it be in the povver of the vveakeſt arme to take avvay life, it is not in the ſtrongeſt to deprive us of death: the firſt day of our Jubilee is death; the Devill hath therefore failed of his deſires; vvee are happier vvith death than vve ſhould have been vvithout it: there is no miſery but in himſelfe vvhere there is no end of miſery: en [Henry Clay Work] Marching through Georgia Beadle’s Dime Song Book[...] A Collection of New and Popular Comic and Sentimental Songs. New York, N.Y. Beadle and Company,New York: 118 William Street. General dime book publishers. (date written) 1865 1866 17 57 https://archive.org/details/beadles1018newy/page/n500/mode/1up 49962947 "Hurrah! hurrah! we bring the Jubilee! / Hurrah! Hurrah! the flag that makes you free!" / So we sung the chorus from Atlanta to the sea, / While we were marching through Georgia. en w:Diarmaid MacCulloch Boundaries Defined (50 CE–300) Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years New York, N.Y. Viking 2009 2010 120 https://archive.org/details/christianityfirs0000macc/page/120/mode/1up 978-0-670-02126-0 [I]n 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. en London