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English
Etymology
A variant of eventide; equivalent to eve + tide.
Noun
evetide (plural evetides)
- (archaic, poetic) evening
- Thomas Hardy, And There Was a Great Calm, III:
- The feeble folk at home had grown full-used / To 'dug-outs', 'snipers', 'Huns', from the war-adept / In the mornings heard, and at eventides perused; / To day-dreamt men in millions, when they mused-- / to nightmare-men in millions when they slept.