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vespertide

vespertide noun: the evening, especially (Christianity) the time at which vespers is prayed.

Noun

vespertide (uncountable)

  1. (archaic, poetic) the evening, especially (Christianity) the time at which vespers is prayed
    • And the holy nuns after vespertide, / All forth from the chapel are gone1825, The Literary Gazette, volume 9, page 356
    • And holy Vespertide had rolled / Its fulgent waves of molten gold / Adown the forest bower1860, Jane Crewdson, “The Hermit of Livry”, in Lays of the Reformation, and Other Lyrics, Scriptural and Miscellaneous, page 101

Origin of vespertide

From vesper + -tide.

Questions about vespertide

What does vespertide mean?
Vespertide means the evening, especially (Christianity) the time at which vespers is prayed.
What part of speech is vespertide?
Vespertide is a noun.

Words near vespertide in the dictionary

  1. vesperating
  2. vesperian
  3. vesperies
  4. vespering
  5. vespers
  6. vespertide
  7. vespertilian
  8. vespertilionid
  9. vespertilionids
  10. vespertilionine
  11. vespertilionines

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