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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