Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Morning; figuratively, the early part of any course, especially of life. Compare morrow-tide.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Poetic Morning time.

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  • noun poetic Morning time.

Etymologies

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morning +‎ tide

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Examples

  • Fast its shadows were dissolving into corners, and allowing a whiff of fresh dewy morningtide to enter at the window.

    Through Russia 2003

  • His father set psalms to music, his sister wrote madrigals, and his mother played sweet strains on a harp to waken him at morningtide.

    Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Hubbard, Elbert, 1856-1915 1916

  • Fast its shadows were dissolving into corners, and allowing a whiff of fresh dewy morningtide to enter at the window.

    Through Russia Maksim Gorky 1902

  • His father set psalms to music, his sister wrote madrigals, and his mother played sweet strains on a harp to waken him at morningtide.

    Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 05 Little Journeys to the Homes of English Authors Elbert Hubbard 1885

  • By night, by day, at morningtide and sunset, when darkness draweth on, and at early light I remember, and ever have remembered, in the realms of my mind and heart, the loved ones of the Lord.

    Selections from the Writings of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá 1844-1921 `Abdu'l-Bah�� 1882

  • Thy singleness to become servants whom the Supreme Concourse will applaud, whose praises the dwellers in Thine all-glorious realm will utter; may they hear the heralds of the invisible world as they raise their cry of the Most Great Glad-Tidings; may they, in their longing to meet Thee, invoke and pray unto Thee, intoning wondrous orisons at the dawn of light — O my Lord Who disposest all things — shedding their tears at morningtide and even, yearning to pass into the shadow of Thy mercy that endeth never.

    Selections from the Writings of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá 1844-1921 `Abdu'l-Bah�� 1882

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