Meaning of sennight | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A period of seven consecutive days and nights; a week.
   archaic, obsolete, poetic
2. Preceded by a specified day such as Sunday, today, or yesterday: a week from (either before or after) the specified day.
   archaic, attributive, obsolete, poetic
3. Preceded by a specified day and come: a week after the specified day.
   obsolete
4. Preceded by a specified day and gone or was: a week before the specified day.
   obsolete

Examples

“I dranke not this sennet / A draught to my pay; / Elynour, I thé pray, / Of thyne ale let vs assay, […]”

“Marry he trots hard vvith a yong maid, betvveen the contract of her marriage, and the day it is ſolemnizd: if the interim be but a ſennight, Times pace is ſo hard, that it ſeemes the length of ſeuen yeare.”

“I was not bit enough to stand up to Edward personally, so I had to console the sufferer by allowing him to grease the wheels of the donkey-cart—a luscious treat that had been specially reserved for me, a sennight past, by the gardener's boy, for putting in a good word on his behalf with the new kitchen-maid.”

“Old woman, what was it the village Elders said a se'nnight since? Eh? Stir your memory.”

“, week last and sevennight”

“It will be in my power to assure him that her ladyship was quite well yesterday se'nnight.”

“I was snowed up at a friend's house once for a week. Nothing could be pleasanter. I went for only one night, and could not get away till that very day se'nnight.”

“We leave Bath, as she has perhaps told you, on Saturday se'nnight.”

“As for his marriage with the Lady Margaret, fixed though it was for this day sennight, the thing was so palpably absurd that he scarcely gave it a thought.”

“And Mrs. Jevvkes tells me, every one names Thurſday come Sev'nnight for our Nuptials.”

“Sir Robert Pringle and John Hunter attended the meeting of Heritors intimated here on Sunday gone a se'enight.”

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