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eventide

[ ee-vuhn-tahyd ]

noun



eventide

/ ˈiːvənˌtaɪd /

noun

  1. archaic.
    another word for evening


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Word History and Origins

Origin of eventide1

before 950; Middle English; Old English ǣfentīd. See even 2, tide 2

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Example Sentences

On this sweet lawn the inmates and guests walked for sun and mellow air, and often played bowls at eventide.

On the surface of the lake at eventide, there lay how sweet a sadness!

Thus was slipping away the eventide of the day that God, in his infinite condescension aeons ago, had hallowed and blessed.

Sometimes he drives his flock home at eventide; sometimes he bivouacs sub jove frigido, under the cold heaven of night.

All Florence turns out at eventide, but we avoid the slow crowds on the Lung' Arno, and take our way "up all manner of streets."

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