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vespertide

noun

Etymology

From vesper + -tide.

  1. borrowed from vesper — “evening star”
  2. formed as vespertide — “vesper + -tide”

Definitions

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

    • And the holy nuns after vespertide, / All forth from the chapel are gone
    • And holy Vespertide had rolled / Its fulgent waves of molten gold / Adown the forest bower
    • 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.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA