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vespertide en · NOUN

Etymology

From vesper + -tide.

Meanings

  1. (archaic, poetic, uncountable) the evening, especially (Christianity) the time at which vespers is prayed
    • 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:
    • 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:
    • And the holy nuns after vespertide, / All forth from the chapel are gone 1825, The Literary Gazette, volume 9, page 356: