A sabbatical year is a year of rest, usually the seventh year, like the shabbat, which is the seventh day of the week.
The term may refer to
- the biblical concept of the shmita year
- the modern concept of an extended hiatus in work, a sabbatical year
Famous quotes containing the words sabbatical and/or year:
“In the past, it seemed to make sense for a sportswriter on sabbatical from the playpen to attend the quadrennial hawgkilling when Presidential candidates are chosen, to observe and report upon politicians at play. After all, national conventions are games of a sort, and sports offers few spectacles richer in low comedy.”
—Walter Wellesley (Red)
“The New Year is the season in which custom seems more particularly to authorize civil and harmless lies, under the name of compliments. People reciprocally profess wishes which they seldom form and concern which they seldom feel.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)