Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • By night; nightly: used of repeated or habitual acts.

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  • adverb archaic In the night time; at night.

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Examples

  • Others offend in overmuch fasting: pining adays, saith [1435] Guianerius, and waking anights, as many Moors and Turks in these our times do.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Lying and unfaithfull; w'd doe things on purpose in contradiction and vexation to her mistress; lye out of the house anights and have contrivances w'th fellows that have been stealing from o'r estate and gett drink out of ye cellar for them; saucy and impudent, as when we have taken her to task for her wickedness she has gone away to complain of cruell usage.

    Customs and Fashions in Old New England Alice Morse Earle 1881

  • Wak'st anights, or do thine eyelids close upon thy sleeping eyes?

    The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume IV Anonymous 1879

  • [581] He [582] lay that night under the tree in all ease; but he whose head is in the headsman's hand sleepeth not anights.

    Alaeddin and the Enchanted Lamp John Payne 1879

  • Now the princess, of the excess of her grief for her separation from her husband and the Sultan her father and of her sore distress at that which had betided her with the accursed Maugrabin enchanter, used every day to arise, at the first peep of dawn, [586] and sit weeping; nay, she slept not anights and forswore meat and drink.

    Alaeddin and the Enchanted Lamp John Payne 1879

  • Why on this wise they hurry me off by stealth, anights And lightly equipped, I know not, nor whither with me they go.

    The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume IV Anonymous 1879

  • Eyoub, and has been with him these four months, whilst this our lord is weeping and watching anights over an empty tomb. '

    The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume I Anonymous 1879

  • So that oft anights would I wander through the mead and far away,

    The House of the Wolfings William Morris 1865

  • 'It sets an ill example to my quiet house if the ladies therein go anights to the gentlemen's chambers.'

    St. George and St. Michael Volume II George MacDonald 1864

  • 'It sets an ill example to my quiet house if the ladies therein go anights to the gentlemen's chambers.'

    St. George and St. Michael George MacDonald 1864

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