eveningtide

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Etymology

From evening +‎ -tide.

Noun

eveningtide (uncountable)

  1. (archaic, poetic) Synonym of evening
    • 1611, The Holy Bible,  (King James Version), London: Robert Barker, , →OCLC, Isaiah 17:14:
      And behold at euening tide trouble, and before the morning he is not: this is the portion of them that spoile vs, and the lot of them that robbe vs.
    • 1883, Laura Carter Holloway, “Yorkshire Authors: Charlotte Bronté”, in Old Yorkshire, volume 4, page 126:
      A walk in the dull and waning light of a winter’s afternoon, enabled these lonely children to return to their writing at eveningtide with new zeal, and while the wind sang its requiem without, they wrote their weird and extraordinary compositions.
    • 1894 October 19, Isaac N. Mills, Souvenir of the Revolutionary Soldiers’ Monument Dedication, at Tarrytown, N. Y., page 20:
      On July 2d of that year, Washington and his army, on their way southward to make the movement against New York, rested at eveningtide before the portals of her church […]
    • 2015, James Lee Burke, House of the Rising Sun, →ISBN, page 426:
      “ […] I’d love to see you in the surf at eveningtide, with the sun behind you like an enormous, succulent orange.”
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