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sennight

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[ sen-ahyt, -it ]

noun

Archaic.
  1. a week.


sennight

/ ˈɛԲɪ /

noun

  1. an archaic word for week
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of sennight1

First recorded before 1000; Middle English sevenyht, seoveniht(e), sennyght, etc., Old English seofon nihta; seven, night
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of sennight1

Old English seofan nihte; see seven , night
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Example Sentences

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Sabbath-day was sennight, the women at Marblehead, as they came out of the meeting-house, fell upon two Indians that were brought in as captives, and, in a tumultuous way, very barbarously murdered them.

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We must well beware Of letting these ride homeward, unless ourselves we fare Within a sennight after straight into Etzel's land.

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I was able to tell him that Lady Catherine was very well on Saturday sennight.

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He read us a letter from the Dr., his father, dated yesterday sennight, being Sunday.

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It was now the Saturday sennight mentioned by Margaret as the day when Mr. Hamilton was to come to settle certain small business matters with Mrs. Swanwick.

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