holyday

noun

1. (alt-of, alternative)Alternative form of holiday used to emphasize holiness.

   “This is the year to reverse the process of time and once again make the holiday a holyday; our Clausmas, a Christmas.”

   “You’ve heard the pitch (you can hardly escape it): We’ve turned a Christian holy'''day into a Roman holiday […]”

   “This brings up the question raised by these scholars when they say "holyday" is the same as "sabbaths". So why would Paul repeat himself there? […] Most Jewish holydays were a number of days or weeks. Now ONE of THOSE days WAS a sabbath. […] So we see then, there are different sabbath days. Some included in the feasts and holy convocations. Does this mean THE OTHER DAYS weren't "HOLYDAYS"?”

2. (alt-of, obsolete)Obsolete form of holiday.

   “Having obtained the loan of a horse one holyday, he rode into a "faire forest," where, overcome by the heat, he lay down under the shade of a tree and meditated on his wretched state.”

   “[…] they were soon on the beautiful common leading to Roehampton, where villas, which seem, like Beatrice's idea of King Pedro for a husband, made only for holydays […]”