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midnoon
(mɪdnuːn: stress variable)
[f. mid a. + noon.]
Midday; noon.
1580Lyly Euphues (Arb.) 442 The Gentlewoemen in Greece and Italy, who begin their morning at midnoone. 1667Milton P.L. v. 311 Seems another Morn Ris'n on mid-noon. 1725Watts Logic ii. v. §7 They can tell precisely..what Altitude the Dog-star had at Midnight or Midnoon in Rome. 1832Tennyson Œnone 91 It was the deep midnoon. a1864Hawthorne Amer. Note-Bks. (1879) I. 157 Far towards midnoon.
b. transf. and fig.
1814Wordsw. Excurs. vi. p. 305 The approved Assistant of an arduous course From his mid noon of manhood to old age! 1860Ld. Lytton Lucile ii. ii. i. 27 A man of your years, At the midnoon of manhood, with plenty to do.
c. attrib. passing into adj. Of or pertaining to midnoon; occurring at midnoon.
1804J. Grahame Sabbath (1808) 64 Here nature in her midnoon whispers speaks. 1805Southey Madoc in W. vi, From early morning till the midnoon hour. |