Vespertide

Quick meaning: Vespertide is a noun meaning (poetic, archaic) the evening, especially (Christianity) the time at which vespers is prayed.

Meaning

(poetic, archaic) the evening, especially (Christianity) the time at which vespers is prayed.

Example Sentences

And the holy nuns after vespertide, / All forth from the chapel are gone

And holy Vespertide had rolled / Its fulgent waves of molten gold / Adown the forest bower

At vespertide on that summer Sunday, seven or eight thousand cavalry advanced with loud shouting and clang of trumpets against the Ziscaberg, carried an outwork on a lower slope of the hill, and passed on to the tiny fortress above.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include vespers, vesperal, vesper, evensong, placebo, vigil.

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