Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
sith for since.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb obsolete Since; afterwards. See 1st
sith .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- conjunction obsolete From or since the time that.
- conjunction obsolete
since then, after that.
Etymologies
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Examples
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A Stroke of Midnight takes place in a single day, picking up pretty much immediately after the previous book, and also takes place entirely within the sithen.
A Stroke of Midnight 2005
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And it is not longe sithen the sepulcre was alle open, that men myghte kisse it and touche it.
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There was dwellynge somtyme a ryche man, and it is not longe sithen, and men clept him Gatholonabes; and he was fulle of cauteles and of sotylle disceytes; and he hadde a fulle fair castelle, and a strong, in a mountayne, so strong and so noble, that no man cowde devise a fairere ne a strangere.
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And sithen hitherward might no knight see her, but that he died anon.
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And it is not long sithen, that a knight of Rhodes, that was hardy and doughty in arms, said that he would kiss her.
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And never since, neither the King of Armenia nor the country were never in peace; ne they had never sith plenty of goods; and they have been sithen always under tribute of the
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And nevere sithen, nouther the kyng of Ermoyne, ne the contree, weren never in pees, ne thei hadden never sithen plentee of godes; and thei han ben sithen alle weyes undre tribute of the
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For first he let slay his wife that he loved right well; and for the passing love that he had to her when he saw her dead, he fell in a rage and out of his wit a great while; and sithen he came again to his wit.
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And nevere sithen, nouther the kyng of Ermoyne, ne the contree, weren never in pees, ne thei hadden never sithen plentee of godes; and thei han ben sithen alle weyes undre tribute of the
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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There was dwellynge somtyme a ryche man, and it is not longe sithen, and men clept him Gatholonabes; and he was fulle of cauteles and of sotylle disceytes; and he hadde a fulle fair castelle, and a strong, in a mountayne, so strong and so noble, that no man cowde devise a fairere ne a strangere.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
bilby commented on the word sithen
"Sir, said Sir Melias, ye say sooth. But, sir, sithen ye have made me a knight ye must of right grant me my first desire that is reasonable. Ye say sooth, said Galahad."
- Thomas Malory, 'The Holy Grail'.
September 8, 2009
fbharjo commented on the word sithen
next - si(nce) then
September 5, 2011