black mass – English noun declension

English noun forms of black mass

Noun: black mass
Singularblack mass
Pluralblack masses

Sample Sentences

  • Local lore held that the quarry had once been the site of black masses.
  • An enormous number of monks and priests gave themselves up to sorcery, and there was no lack of apostate priests to perform the ceremonies of the Black Mass. [1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 101:]
  • As a parish priest in England he had dabbled in the black arts, seduced a number of his congregation from their faith and finally celebrated the Black Mass. [1965, Attila Zohar, Kings Cross Black Magic, Sydney: Horwitz Publications, page 30:]
  • Elmos and Maureen had draped their room in some old purple rags and were about to start a black mass when the police arrived. [1970, Kevin Mackey, The Cure: Recollections of an Addict, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, published 1972, page 93:]
  • Generals gathered in their masses / Just like witches at black masses [1970, “War Pigs”, in Paranoid, performed by Black Sabbath:]
  • The paranormal investigators then aimed their cameras in the direction from which the black mass had been seen emerging.

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