yeartide

plural yeartides

1. poeticfantasyA specific time of year; season.

   And soft the yeartides creep: O sweet, O lasting sleep!

   1921, Emma Kenyon Parrish, The Golden Island, page 8

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   […] And promised whatever the yeartides would bring To this wish of his friend he would fervently cling.

   1907, Union of American Hebrew Congregations, Young Israel

   Or phylacteries on skulls unyielding, While our river of days flows dark With a yeartide of days, a yeartide of nights Unhallowed, unhallowed?

   1958, American Jewish Congress, Judaism

   Peter & 2-Js & I joined in a flower bunch, besides which I also sent her a 15 bob sheaf on my own, with gum-leafage — the sole homish stuff havable here at this yeartide — there among.

   1985, Percy Grainger, Kay Dreyfus, The Farthest North of Humanness: Letters of Percy Grainger, 1901–1914

2. nonstandardrareA specific time each year; anniversary.

   There will be a tourney in three days, as always at Yeartide. You could enter those events at which you may excel.

   2006, Gene Wolfe, The Wizard: Book Two of The Wizard Knight

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   A-dream, we rock at home. So, lasting-sweet is sleep: With sails forever furled. Forgot is all the world, And soft the yeartides creep: O sweet, O lasting sleep!

   1921, Emma Kenyon Parrish, The Golden Island