vespertide

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noun

the evening, especially (Christianity) the time at which vespers is prayed

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Meanings

nounvespertide (uncountable)
  1. archaicpoeticuncountablethe evening, especially (Christianity) the time at which vespers is prayed

    And the holy nuns after vespertide, / All forth from the chapel are gone

    1825, The Literary Gazette, volume 9, page 356
    2 more examples

    And holy Vespertide had rolled / Its fulgent waves of molten gold / Adown the forest bower

    1860, Jane Crewdson, “The Hermit of Livry”, in Lays of the Reformation, and Other Lyrics, Scriptural and Miscellaneous, page 101

    At vespertide on that summer Sunday, seven or eight thousand cavalry advanced with loud shouting and clang of trumpets against the Ziscaberg, carried an outwork on a lower slope of the hill, and passed on to the tiny fortress above.

    1895, “John Zizka”, in Macmillan’s Magazine, volume 72, page 351

Synonyms & antonyms

Also see
eveningeventide

Origin

From vesper + -tide.

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