Meanings
- uncountableThe light of evening; twilight.
Here at the window in the evenlight I lean my ears to summon once again The sound of memory in its sweet refrain, [...]
1907, Folger McKinsey, A rose of the old regime and other poems of home-love and childhood3 more examples
The doings of Grendel, In far-off fatherland I fully did know of: Sea-farers tell us, this hall-building standeth, Excellent edifice, empty and useless To all the earlmen after evenlight's glimmer 'Neath heaven's bright hues [...]
1908, John Lesslie Hall, Beowulf: An Anglo-Saxon Epic PoemWhen a little child lies in your arms at night, What do you care for care; When her little lips sing in the evenlight, And her little arms clasp you there?
1910, National Lumberman, (Please provide the book title or journal name)Search further and the past presents you still New Ninas, new Alcamas, time's mid-night Concluding, — better say its evenlight Of yesterday.
1911, Robert Browning, The Poems & Plays of Robert Browning
Origin
- Old Englishǣfenlēoht“evening light”
- Middle Englishevenlight
- Englishevenlight
From Middle English evenlight, evenelyȝth, from Old English ǣfenlēoht (“evening light”), equivalent to even + light. Cognate with Dutch avondlicht (“evening light”), German Abendlicht (“evening light”).
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