Meaning of sevennight | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A period of seven consecutive days and nights; a week.
   archaic, obsolete
2. Preceded by a specified day such as Sunday, today, or yesterday: a week from the specified day.
   archaic, attributive, obsolete
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

“[T]he bold Iago. / VVhoſe footing here anticipates our thoughts / A ſennights ſpeede.”

“VVearie Seu'nights, nine times nine, / Shall he dvvindle, peake, and pine: […]”

“The Holy Houſel ought to be kept vvith great Diligence and not be permitted to be ſtale, but another be alvvays hallovved anevv for Sick Men in about a Seven-night, or Fortnight, ſo as that it may not be muſty at leaſt.”

“VVhat doctrine is vvritten for us in the eighth chapter of the firſt book of Kings, I did partly ſhevv unto you, moſt honourable audience, this day ſeven-night, of that good man, father Samuel, that good Judge⟳, hovv good a man he vvas, vvhat helpers and coadjutors he took unto him, to have⟳ his office vvell diſcharged.”

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

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