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单词 nocturnally
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nocturnallyadv.

Brit. /nɒkˈtəːnl̩i/, /nɒkˈtəːnəli/, U.S. /nɑkˈtərnəli/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: nocturnal adj., -ly suffix2.
Etymology: < nocturnal adj. + -ly suffix2.
1. Nightly, every night. Obsolete.
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the world > time > day and night > night > [adverb] > every night
nightly1441
nocturnally1543
1543 ( Chron. J. Hardyng (1812) 49 (MED) A roche of stone..About the whiche the sea floweth dayly, And refloweth again nocturnally, Twyse in his course and to the sea again.
1651 S. Sheppard Epigrams iii. 47 Thy Diety is all to great On Parsly for too make thy meat, Such, as to my Lares I Offer up nocturnally.
1783 T. Holcroft Human Happiness iii. 37 The soul..Is found nocturnally eloping.
2. By night, during the night.
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the world > time > day and night > night > [adverb]
nightseOE
on nightOE
in (also of, on, upon) the nightOE
by nightlOE
on (also in) nightslOE
a-nightc1175
a-nightsc1175
at nightc1300
within nightc1400
a-nightertime?a1439
a nighttimes1567
at nights1581
nightly1597
benight1642
nocturnally1812
night-times1851
nitely1970
1812 H. Smith & J. Smith Rejected Addr. 65 And if she were here all alone, Our house might nocturnally boast, A bumper of fashion and ton.
1890 Jrnl. Anthropol. Inst. 19 321 Spirits ‘possessing’ people, either nocturnally, as in nightmare, or more or less constantly, as in mania.
1932 Ecology 13 344 Whether or not this or that species is nocturnally periodic in its activities must be discovered through experimentation.
1990 Sunday Express Mag. 21 Oct. 20/1 He spent..years of his life nocturnally..observing..barn owls.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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