se'nnight
See also: sennight
English
Noun
se'nnight (plural se'nnights)
- Alternative form of sennight
- 1948 (1st collected edition 1953), Isaac Asimov, “Two Men and a Peasant”, in Second Foundation, New York, N.Y.: Del Rey, published 2020, →ISBN, part I (Search by the Mule), page 41:
- Old woman, what was it the village Elders said a se'nnight since? Eh? Stir your memory.
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Adverb
se'nnight (not comparable)
- Alternative form of sennight
- 1813 January 27, [Jane Austen], chapter XVIII, in Pride and Prejudice, volume I, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton […], OCLC 38659585, page 224:
- It will be in my power to assure him that her ladyship was quite well yesterday se'nnight.
- 1815 December (indicated as 1816), [Jane Austen], chapter XIII, in Emma: […], volume I, London: […] [Charles Roworth and James Moyes] for John Murray, OCLC 1708336, page 244:
- 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.
- 1817 December, [Jane Austen], chapter II, in Northanger Abbey; published in Northanger Abbey: And Persuasion. […], volume I, London: John Murray, […], 1818, OCLC 318384910, pages 26–27:
- We leave Bath, as she has perhaps told you, on Saturday se'nnight.
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Anagrams
- nightens