Annunciation Definition

ə-nŭnsē-āshən
noun
The act of announcing.
American Heritage
An announcing or being announced.
Webster's New World
An announcement; a proclamation.
American Heritage
An announcement.
Webster's New World
The angel Gabriel's announcement to the Virgin Mary of the Incarnation, observed as a feast on March 25.
American Heritage
Synonyms:
pronoun

(Christianity) The announcement by the archangel Gabriel to Mary that she will give birth to a son, namely Jesus. Celebrated on 25th March.

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Other Word Forms of Annunciation

Noun

Singular:
annunciation
Plural:
annunciations

Idioms, Phrasal Verbs Related to Annunciation

  • the Annunciation

Annunciation Sentence Examples

  • The church of the Ognissanti has a Romanesque relief of the Annunciation over the door.

  • By the charter of 1194 the burgesses received licence to hold a fair on the vigil, feast and morrow of the Annunciation, and this with the fair on St James's day was confirmed to them by Henry VII.

  • The Last Judgment and the Annunciation were two of the subjects he most frequently treated.

  • The activity of his life left him little time for writing, but he was the author of " an anaphora, sundry letters, a creed or confession of faith, preserved in Arabic and a secondary Ethiopic translation, and a homily for the Feast of the Annunciation, also extant only in an Arabic translation" (Wright).

  • It contains a fine "Annunciation" by Titian (1519), an important "Adoration of the Shepherds" by Paris Bordone (born at Treviso in 1500), and frescoes by Pordenone.

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Words Starting With

AANANN

Words Ending With

NONION

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Words Starting With A and Ending With N

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