eveningtide

English

Alternative forms

• evening-tide, evening tide, eventide

Etymology

From evening +‎ -tide.

Noun

eveningtide (uncountable)

1. (archaic, poetic) Synonym of evening
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Isaiah 17:14:

     And behold at euening tide trouble, and before the morning he is not: this is the portion of them that spoile vs, and the lot of them that robbe vs.

   • 1883, Laura Carter Holloway, “Yorkshire Authors: Charlotte Bronté”, in Old Yorkshire, volume 4, page 126:

     A walk in the dull and waning light of a winter’s afternoon, enabled these lonely children to return to their writing at eveningtide with new zeal, and while the wind sang its requiem without, they wrote their weird and extraordinary compositions.

   • 1894 October 19, Isaac N. Mills, Souvenir of the Revolutionary Soldiers’ Monument Dedication, at Tarrytown, N. Y., page 20:

     On July 2d of that year, Washington and his army, on their way southward to make the movement against New York, rested at eveningtide before the portals of her church […]

   • 2015, James Lee Burke, House of the Rising Sun, →ISBN, page 426:

     “ […] I’d love to see you in the surf at eveningtide, with the sun behind you like an enormous, succulent orange.”