Sunday Word: Eventide

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eventide [ee-vuhn-tahyd]

noun:
(archaic or poetic) another word for evening

Examples:

East Bluff Trail at Devil's Lake State Park, perched along the Ice Age National Scenic Trail, will blow your eventide expectations. (Perri Ormont Blumberg, The 16 Best Sunset Hikes in America, Travel and Leisure, March 2022)

One of the most exciting and certainly one of the most wonderful sights of the countryside is the homecoming of the rooks at eventide. (George Muller, Country diary 1922: homecoming of the rooks at eventide is a wonderful sight, The Guardian, October 2022)

Sometimes he drives his flock home at eventide; sometimes he bivouacs sub jove frigido, under the cold heaven of night. (Arthur Mangin, The Desert World)

Then does everything become more mysterious, the sky frowns with clouds, yellow leaves strew the paths at the edge of the naked forest, and the forest itself turns black and blue - more especially at eventide when damp fog is spreading and the trees glimmer in the depths like giants, like formless, weird phantoms. (Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Poor Folk)

Gods, my gods! How sad the earth is at eventide! How mysterious are the mists over the swamps. (Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita )

Origin:

'evening' (archaic), Old English æfentid; from even, 'end of the day,' Old English æfen, Mercian efen, Northumbrian efern) + tide, Old English tīd 'point or portion of time, due time, period, season; feast-day, canonical hour,' from Proto-Germanic tīdi- 'division of time' (source also of Old Saxon tid, Dutch tijd, Old High German zit, German Zeit 'time'), from PIE di-ti- 'division, division of time,' suffixed form of root da- 'to divide.' (Online Etymology Dictionary)