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US
/ˈpɛntəˌkɔst/
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NOUN
- (Judaism) Jewish holy day celebrated on the sixth of Sivan to celebrate Moses receiving the Ten Commandments
- seventh Sunday after Easter; commemorates the emanation of the Holy Spirit to the Apostles; a quarter day in Scotland
How To Use Pentecost In A Sentence
- Judas and his men thanked these people and asked them to extend the same kindness to his race in the future. Then they returned to Jerusalem, since the feast of Weeks of Pentecost was approaching.
- Open theism has found some favor with Pentecostals who view it in terms of a spirited give-and-take with God.
- Rapturous joy was remindful of religious euphoria, as in Pentecostal women of the 1930s.
- From 1943 to his death in 1989, King Louis Narcisse fused Baptist, Pentecostal, and gris-gris traditions into a gumbo of ritual and hagiography.
- Roberts meant a lot to a vast audience of Pentecostals, those believers ridiculed - by atheists, agnostics and mainstream religions alike - as backwater snake charmers, poor, uneducated serfs lucky to scrape up enough money to pay the rent on the shack and procure "vittles" for Sunday dinner. Lonestartimes.com
- Indeed, Latin America, particularly Brazil, has become in a very short time a world center of Pentecostal Christianity, wherefrom it has now begun to radiate in all directions.
- In the 1980s, the early years of the NAR, there was significant cross-fertilization between Reconstructionists and Pentecostalism. Julie Ingersoll: C. Peter Wagner: Dominion Theology And Postmillennialism On NPR
- Thus, dispensational theology made a lot of sense to both Pentecostal and evangelical believers at this point in history.
- Those who represent the Pentecostal movement say that missionaries function as apostles.
- Today, almost 525 million people around the world identify themselves as Pentecostals or charismatics.
