Coronatide

From corona(virus) +‎ -tide (suffix meaning ‘time’, denoting seasons), by analogy with liturgical seasons such as Christmastide and Eastertide.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /kəˈɹəʊnəˌtaɪd/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /kəˈɹoʊnəˌtaɪd/
• Hyphenation: Co‧ro‧na‧tide

Coronatide

1. (Christianity, neologism) The period of the COVID-19 pandemic.

   Synonyms: coronatime, coronatimes, Covidtide

   • 2020 March 14, Matthew Ciszek, “At IHOP for breakfast […]”, in Twitter‎^[1], archived from the original on 14 March 2020:

     At IHOP for breakfast and the COVID-19 protocols are in full swing. Every surface is being constantly wiped down with sanitizer, no shared bottles of syrup, ketchup, and condiments, and sparse, unadorned tables. Welcome to coronatide. 😐

   • 2020 July 10, Jana Riess, “If you want to win Latter-Day Saints back to the church, shame and fear are not how to do it”, in The Salt Lake Tribune‎^[2], Salt Lake City, Ut.: Salt Lake Tribune, Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 31 December 2020:

     Nowhere in the letter do the writers express a desire to know what is going on with the recipient; they do not wish to listen, learn, or truly befriend. They seem, above all, to want compliance. They want butts in pews, or at least the coronatide equivalent.

   • 2021, William Franklin, “Preface: Two Movements of the Past that Inform the Future”, in C[harles] Andrew Doyle, Embodied Liturgy: Virtual Reality and Liturgical Theology in Conversation, New York, N.Y.: Church Publishing, →ISBN, page xx:

     In this unsettling season of Coronatide we find ourselves beset by change, some welcome, some unwelcome.

   • 2022 October 4, Katie Burke, “Ready for Mass: Churching like a pro”, in The Catholic Sun‎^[3], Phoenix, Ariz.: Roman Catholic Diocese of Phoenix, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 16 February 2023:

     Coronatide made it hard to go an hour or two without snacking, but we’re past that now, and Mass is definitely not the place for the munchies.

   • 2024, Oliver Keenan, Why Aquinas Matters Now, London: Bloomsbury Continuum, →ISBN, page 2:

     As we continue to reckon with the devastating psychological and social impact of Coronatide, Thomas is a reliable guide to the interior caverns of our hearts and minds.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Coronatide.

• COVID-19 pandemic on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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