Why this word is great
GANGTIDE — [Noun] The liturgical period of Rogation Week, the three days before Ascension Day, marked by processions to bless the crops and plead for clemency. From Middle English gang ("a going, journey, procession") + tide ("time, season"), referring to the processions held during this liturgical period. Unlike "Rogation Days," which specifies the discrete days of fasting and prayer, or "Ascensiontide," which names the expansive, triumphant season that follows, Gangtide is the suspended, verdant moment of collective motion itself. It is the slow, chanting parade along a muddy headland, the rhythmic rustle of a congregation moving between furrows, and the sight of priestly vestments startlingly white against the new green of the barley—a fleeting choreography of hope walked into the heart of our own fragility.