Definition of Tidings

Tidings

Account of what has taken place, and was not before known; news.

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Tidings Quotations

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
John Muir

No man loves the bearer of bad tidings.
Sophocles

When I was a child people simply looked about them and were moderately happy; today they peer beyond the seven seas, bury themselves waist deep in tidings, and by and large what they see and hear makes them unutterably sad.
E. B. White

As to those who hoard gold and silver and spend it not in God's path, give them, then, the tidings of a painful agony: on a day when these things shall be heated in hell-fire, and their foreheads, and their sides, and their backs shall be branded therewith.
Kin Hubbard

Before this distinguished assembly and the world, the bells today proclaim the joyous tidings of the completion of this quietly soaring tower.
Earl Warren

You don't hear things that are bad about your company unless you ask. It is easy to hear good tidings, but you have to scratch to get the bad news.
Thomas J. Watson

Literature delivers tidings of the world within and the world without.
George Henry Lewes

St. Peter announced the glad tidings of the Gospel to the people on the day of Pentecost, and converted, by the first Christian sermon, ever preached, three thousand - which formed the primitive Church.
John Strachan

I very much regret, in appearing before you at your request, to address you on the present state of the country, and the prospect before us, that I can bring you no good tidings.
Robert Toombs

We want to take good tidings home to our people, that they may sleep in peace.
Black Kettle

We prepared to go ashore to publish for the first time in New Zealand the glad tidings of the gospel.
Samuel Marsden

Each mind is pressed, and open every ear, to hear new tidings, though they no way joy us.
Edward Fairfax

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Tidings Translations

tidings in French is avertissement
tidings in German is Nachricht, Neuigkeiten
tidings in Italian is nuova
tidings in Swedish is nyheter

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