anight

English

Etymology

a- + night

Adverb

anight (not comparable)

  1. (obsolete) In the night-time, at night.
    • c. 1599, William Shakespeare, As You Like It, Act II, Scene 4,
      I remember, when I was in love, I broke my sword upon a stone, and bid him take that for coming a-night to Jane Smile []
    • 1680, Thomas Betterton, The Revenge, or, A Match in Newgate, London: W. Cademan, Act IV, Scene 1, p. 37,
      I speak very kinde things of you between my Maid and I anight as I am going to bed, and next my Prayers too, Heaven forgive me!
    • 1692, The Arraignment, Tryal, Conviction and Condemnation of Henry Harrison, London, p. 18,
      My Lord, there stands in Court one Thomas Johnson, Apprentice to Mr. Pemmel; he can tell what time a-night it was I came to Mr. Humston’s, he let me in; I desire he may be call’d.

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