Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The period of seven days and nights; a week, or the time from one day of the week to the next day of the same denomination preceding or following. See
sennight .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A week; any period of seven consecutive days and nights. See
sennight .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
week ; any period of seven consecutive days and nights.
Etymologies
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Examples
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I will play on this week only; and if I have a good run, I will carry it off with me; if a bad one, the loss can hardly amount to anything considerable in seven days, for I hope to see you in town tomorrow sevennight.
Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman 2005
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Take notice, I summon you before the official this day sevennight; I will law and claw you like any old devil of Vauverd, that I will — Then turning himself towards Friar John, with a smiling and joyful look, he said to him,
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Take notice, I summon you before the official this day sevennight; I will law and claw you like any old devil of Vauverd, that I will — Then turning himself towards Friar John, with a smiling and joyful look, he said to him,
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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And the cause of the plague was by a stinking and infectious exhalation which lately vapoured out of the abysms, whereof there have died above two and twenty hundred and threescore thousand and sixteen persons within this sevennight.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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And the cause of the plague was by a stinking and infectious exhalation which lately vapoured out of the abysms, whereof there have died above two and twenty hundred and threescore thousand and sixteen persons within this sevennight.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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I expect you in London on Wednesday sevennight, and there and in
George Selwyn: His Letters and His Life Helen [Editor] Clergue
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I believe I told you of Crawfurd's (13) preferment in my letter of last Friday sevennight.
George Selwyn: His Letters and His Life Helen [Editor] Clergue
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I came down here on this day sevennight, and could I have walked
George Selwyn: His Letters and His Life Helen [Editor] Clergue
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This is a very wise and just maxim; and if I have not left at Mr. Morphew's, directed to me, bank bills for £200 on or before this day sevennight, I shall tell how Tom Cash got his estate.
The Tatler, Volume 1, 1899 George A. Aitken
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I expected her here on Friday next, or on this day sevennight.
George Selwyn: His Letters and His Life Helen [Editor] Clergue
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