Thanksgivingtide

English

Etymology

From Thanksgiving +‎ -tide (“period around a festival”).

Noun

Thanksgivingtide (countable and uncountable, plural Thanksgivingtides)

1. (informal) The season around Thanksgiving.
   • 1876, Harriet Beecher Stowe, “Chapter VII”, in Betty's bright idea; also, Deacon Pitkin's farm, and The first Christmas of New England‎^[1], Thanksgiving Again:

     Seven years had passed, and once more the Thanksgivingtide was in Mapleton.

   • 1901 December 21, Helen Chase, “A Song of Thanksgiving”, in The Connecticut School Journal, volume 7, number 12, The Journal Publishing Co., page 14:

     The wild winds croon of Thanksgivingtide

   • 1911, P. F. Koontz, “Thanksgiving”, in Santa Fe Employes’ Magazine, volume 6, Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway Company, page 131:

     As by this bright fire we sit / At this Thanksgivingtide

   • 1938, George H. Earle, Congressional Record, United States Government Publishing Office, Appendix to the Congressional Record, page 1975:

     Now, therefore, I, George H. Earle, Governor of Pennsylvania, titular successor, so-called, to His Excellency Johan Printz, do solemnly adjure the citizenry of the Commonwealth loyally to consider at this Thanksgivingtide, during 1938 and thereafter, the historical and spiritual significance of events marking this goodly vista of 300 years, and by practice and precept to evolve a concept of simpler, sterner, living in which character is fundamental…

   • 1967, James Archibald Jones, Prayers for the People: A Memorial Collection of Pulpit Prayers, John Knox Press, page 100:

     This Thanksgivingtide recalls to our hearts the endless and undeserved mercies wherewith thou has blessed us.

   • 1975, Joe D. Thomas, Donald E. Morse, Sansculotte: A Nonknickerbocker History of the College English Association (1938–1975) : in Seven Fyttes, Sive Lustra, College English Association Foundation, page 3:

     Devotees of liberal college education attending the yearly Thanksgivingtide

   • 2013 October 29, R. M. Koster, The Dissertation, Overlook Press, →ISBN:

     …a so-called rock opera to which Liz dragged me when we were in New York at Thanksgivingtide in 1971