单词 | nightward |
释义 | nightwardadv.adj. Now chiefly poetic and literary. A. adv. Towards night. Also in to nightward. ΘΚΠ the world > time > day and night > night > [adverb] > late in the day far daysa1400 far nights1561 nightward1621 1621 M. Wroth Countesse of Mountgomeries Urania 316 Shadowes..to nightward seeme longer. 1866 T. C. Irwin Poems 211 Old voices, like the murmurings Of lonely seas that nightward roll. 1884 G. Barlow Poems Real & Ideal 232 The fierce sad seasons that have been..Shall vanish, like pale mists to nightward blown. 1920 F. S. Fitzgerald This Side of Paradise i. ii. 94 The gray car crept nightward in the dark. 1960 R. Francis Orb Weaver 27 I died in a maple-fall a boy was raking Nightward. 1991 A. Atik Offshore 57 Not like your evening primrose Who works later, leaning nightward, Like the wooing passion-flowers. B. adj. Formerly: †coming, taking place, etc., towards nightfall (obsolete). Now: in the direction of or leading towards the night; westward. ΘΚΠ the world > time > day and night > day or daytime > evening > [adjective] > of sunset or nightfall earlya1400 crepusculinec1550 cockshut1592 nightward1631 crepusculous1646 crepuscular1679 sunsetty1860 dimps1891 1631 J. Milton in T. Birch Life in Wks. (1738) I. 4 I am the bolder to send you some of my nightward Thoughts. 1644 J. Milton Of Educ. 5 Their nightward studies wherewith they close the dayes work. 1863 A. D. T. Whitney Faith Gartney's Girlhood xxiii To tread the nightward path under the old leaden sky. 1893 W. W. Campbell Dread Voy. 12 Far ahead no signals horning Hail our nightward bark. 1930 R. Campbell Adamastor 50 The broad curve of the west, with nightward tilt. 1997 T. Pynchon Mason & Dixon i. 6 The nightward Sky, Clouds blown to Chalksmears, stretches above the Northern Liberties, Spring Garden and Germantown. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adv.adj.1621 |
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