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SENNIGHT Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster
The meaning of SENNIGHT is the space of seven nights and days : week.
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sennight - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
Noun · (archaic, poetic or obsolete). A period of seven consecutive days and nights; a week. · Synonym: (archaic or obsolete) sevennight · c. · (obsolete).
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On the Meaning of "Sennight" : r/ENGLISH - Reddit
Sennight is literally a contraction of seven nights. It can only mean seven days and nights. The first example works with this definition.
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sennight Now arch. (ˈsɛnaɪt) Forms: α. see seven and night; β. 2–3 soveniht, 3 seoveniht, -niþt, 3–4 seve-, sove-niȝt, -nyȝt, 4 seovenyght, sefnight, seve-nyht, -niȝth, 4–5 sevenyght(e, sevenyȝt, 5 seve-nyth, -nyut, 6 sevenighte, 6–8 sevenight, 7 seue'night, 7–8 sev'night; γ. 5 sennyȝt, synyght, sen...
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Round about sennight - The Grammarphobia Blog
In the OED's definition, it means “a period of seven (days and) nights; a week.” So a “sennight” is the same thing as a week.
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Sennight a dialect word? | Late Modern English letters
Sennight (or Senight) is an interesting word, being a contraction from seven night(s), meaning “week”, and it has been in the English language since at least ...
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Sennight - Websters Dictionary 1828
SENNIGHT, noun sen'nit. [contracted from sevennight, as fortnight from fourteennight.] The space of seven nights and days; a week.
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Word of the Day - sennight - Dictionary.com
The archaic English noun sennight means literally “seven nights,” i.e. a week. The Old English form was seofan nihta; Middle English had very ...
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sennight, n. meanings, etymology and more | Oxford English ...
The earliest known use of the noun sennight is in the Old English period (pre-1150). sennight is formed within English, by compounding.
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Sennight - World Wide Words
Sennight is an abbreviation of the fuller phrase seven nights, hence a week. So Sir Thomas Malory wrote in Le Mort d'Arthur (1485): “They sojourned there a ...
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SENNIGHT definition in American English - Collins Dictionary
Definition of 'sennight'. COBUILD frequency band. sennight in American English. (ˈsɛnaɪt ; ˈsɛnɪt ) or ˈse'nnight (ˈsɛnaɪt ; ˈsɛnɪt ). noun. Archaic. a week.
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The title runs: The true descripcion of the marueilous straunge Fishe whiche was taken on Thursday was sennight the xvj day of June this present month
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