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单词 mornings
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morningsadv.

Brit. /ˈmɔːnɪŋz/, U.S. /ˈmɔrnɪŋz/
Forms: see morning n., adv., and int.
Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: morning n.
Etymology: < the plural of morning n., perhaps reinforced by association with adverbs in -s suffix1. Compare evenings adv., and earlier days adv., nights adv.
In the morning, every morning. Now chiefly North American colloquial.
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the world > time > day and night > day or daytime > morning > [adverb] > habitually in the morning
mornings?1557
of a morning1591
?1557 Deceyte Women sig. Givv Euenynges and mornynges thei were together.
1620 T. Venner Via Recta ii. 44 Sometimes mornings fasting, a small draught thereof may bee profitable for them.
1652 H. Cogan tr. M. de Scudery Ibrahim iv. ii. 174 Mornings and evenings only I took him out Lessons.
1732 S. Wesley Let. 24 July in J. Wesley Wks. (1829) I. 388 Mornings they had always spoon-meat; sometimes at nights.
1740 Ld. Chesterfield Lett. (1932) (modernized text) II. 423 When the sun shines on either side of us (as it does mornings and evenings), the shadows are very long.
1893 H. C. O'Neill Told in Dimpses 28 Farmer Spurrier could see the plough at work..before he got out of his bed mornings.
1938 T. Wilder Our Town i. 11 Quarter of nine mornings, noontimes, and three o'clock afternoon's [sic], the hull town can hear the yelling and screaming from those schoolyards.
1990 J. C. Oates Because it is Bitter i. iv. 40 Mornings, Iris steels herself to seeing it made up hastily as a bed.
2008 New Yorker 20 Oct. 66/1 Gary Snyder, the Zen poet.., meditates mornings, and thanks his food before he eats it.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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