单词 | worthing night |
释义 | > as lemmasworthing night worthing night n. (apparently) the evening of, or the evening before, an unidentified church festival.The specific sense of quot. c1400 is uncertain; while N.E.D. (1928) suggested the sense ‘? Sunday night’, worthing night is assumed by most editors and commentators to refer to a festival falling between December and Lent, and the feasts of the Epiphany, Candlemas, and Ash Wednesday have all been offered as possibilities. Π c1400 (?c1308) Adam Davy's 5 Dreams (1878) 87 Me met a sweuene, on worþing-niȝth, Of þat ilche derworþe kniȝth. < as lemmas |
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