eventide

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At eventide -- a king would mourn no more

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  1. noun Evening.

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  • I commence this account with a prosaic stroll at eventide -- a saunter down the avenues of la Ville Lumiere, during which the ordinary swiftly gave way to the extraordinary. —  F ;SF - vol 090 issue 03 - March 1996
  • "And what be your business this eventide, your nobleship?" —  Carr, John F, Kalvan Kingmaker (v1.0) (html).html
  • And when the eventide was come, the birds began all with one voice to sing, and clap their wings, crying, “Thou, O God, art praised in Zion, and unto Thee shall the vow be performed in Jerusalem.”  And always they repeated that verse for an hour, and their melody and the clapping of their wings was like music which drew tears by its sweetness. —  The Hermits
  • He sought me occasionally of an eventide, and confided to me views of life in general, and of some of his fellow-passengers in particular. —  Cinderella in the South Twenty-Five South African Tales
  • The record of the first day of what has come to be known as the week of our Lord's passion[1078] is thus concluded by Mark: "And when he had looked round about upon all things, and now the eventide was come, he went out unto Bethany with the twelve. —  Jesus the Christ A Study of the Messiah and His Mission According to Holy Scriptures Both Ancient and Modern
 

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  1. Middle English, from Old English ǣfentīd : ǣfen, evening + tīd, time; see dā- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English even-tide; from even+ tide.
 

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