eventide

«eventide» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: evening — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

kind

archaic word

modern equivalent

evening

part of speech

noun

meaning for a pupil

the evening, the time when the day is ending. tree →

how it differs from today

An old word, rarely used today; we say evening.

examples

• And Isaac went out to meditate in the field at the eventide; and he lifted up his eyes, and saw, and, behold, there were camels coming. (Torah GEN.24.63, JPS 1917) tree →
• So at eventide they all lay down on the floor, and beside them they set a lighted taper hidden in an earthen pot. (Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore) tree →
• And the dove came in to him at eventide; and lo in her mouth an olive-leaf freshly plucked; so Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth. (Torah GEN.8.11, JPS 1917) tree →

primary record

eventide

tests

rate: word (≥3 uses, never in EWT or ≥10× EWT, Wiktionary: first sense archaic); corpora 5 (Torah 2, tales 3, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 0.6 (Torah alone 4.7); Wiktionary archaic (first sense)

In the corpora

• At eventide behold terror; and before the morning they are not.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «eventide» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.