evenlight
English
Etymology
From Middle English evenlight, evenelyȝth, from Old English ǣfenlēoht (“evening light”), equivalent to even + light. Cognate with Dutch avondlicht (“evening light”), German Abendlicht (“evening light”).
Noun
evenlight (uncountable)
- The light of evening; twilight.
- 1907, Folger McKinsey, A rose of the old regime and other poems of home-love and childhood:
- Here at the window in the evenlight I lean my ears to summon once again The sound of memory in its sweet refrain, [...]
- 1908, John Lesslie Hall, Beowulf: An Anglo-Saxon Epic Poem:
- The doings of Grendel, In far-off fatherland I fully did know of: Sea-farers tell us, this hall-building standeth, Excellent edifice, empty and useless To all the earlmen after evenlight's glimmer 'Neath heaven's bright hues [...]
- 1910, National Lumberman:
- When a little child lies in your arms at night, What do you care for care; When her little lips sing in the evenlight, And her little arms clasp you there?
- 1911, Robert Browning, The Poems & Plays of Robert Browning:
- Search further and the past presents you still New Ninas, new Alcamas, time's mid-night Concluding, — better say its evenlight Of yesterday.
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