anight
English
Etymology
a- + night
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /əˈnaɪt/
Adverb
anight (not comparable)
- (obsolete) In the night-time, at night.
- c. 1598–1600 (date written), William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act II, scene iv]:
- I remember, when I was in love, I broke my sword upon a stone, and bid him take that for coming a-night to Jane Smile […]
- 1680, Thomas Betterton, The Revenge, or, A Match in Newgate, London: W. Cademan, Act IV, Scene 1, p. 37,
- I speak very kinde things of you between my Maid and I anight as I am going to bed, and next my Prayers too, Heaven forgive me!
- 1692, The Arraignment, Tryal, Conviction and Condemnation of Henry Harrison, London, p. 18,
- My Lord, there stands in Court one Thomas Johnson, Apprentice to Mr. Pemmel; he can tell what time a-night it was I came to Mr. Humston’s, he let me in; I desire he may be call’d.
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Anagrams
- hang it, hating