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ˈnight-time
[f. night n. + time n.]
The time between evening and morning; the time of night or darkness. Also attrib.
c1400Love Bonavent. Mirr. xxvi. (B.N.C. MS.) lf. 67 [He] cometh downe allone in the nyȝt time fro that trauaillous hille. 1538Elyot Dict., Larna, a spyrite whiche apperethe in the nyght tyme. 1588in Martin Marprel. Controv. (Arb.) 39 [Taken] out of his bed in the nyght tyme. 1632J. Hayward tr. Biondi's Eromena 72 She assailed the enemy in the night-time unawares. 1709Lond. Gaz. No. 4527/1 He came up with them and attacked them in the Night-time. 1772Phil. Trans. LXII. 94 The reason of the water's appearing so white in the night-time. 1829Marryat F. Mildmay vii, Wandering about..in the night-time. 1856R. A. Vaughan Mystics (1860) I. 82 The night-time of the body is the day-time of the soul. 1935T. S. Eliot Murder in Cathedral ii. 76 The night-time heaping of the ashes. 1955Sci. News Let. 26 Feb. 138/1 Sirius, the dog-star, brightest of all the stars in the nighttime sky.
fig.1811Moore Irish Melodies Poet. Wks. (1897) 102 Bright dreams of the past..Which come in the night-time of sorrow and care. |