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Definition of Sennight
1. n. The space of seven nights and days; a week.
Definition of Sennight
1. Noun. A period of seven nights; a week. ¹
2. Adverb. After a sennight has passed. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Sennight
1. a week [n -S] - See also: week
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sennight
Literary usage of Sennight
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publications by Oxford Historical Society (1906)
"that See, he was accordingly consecrated this day sennight, in the Morning, at
Lambeth-Chapel. The Lord Crew, late Bishop of Durham, left (as we are told) ..."
2. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1861)
"... for I heare that youre brother Lawrence will goe unto berries house within
this sennight; or whether you maye goe ..."
3. Ecclesiastical Biography: Or, Lives of Eminent Men, Connected with the by Christopher Wordsworth (1853)
"Thus Sir Thomas was brought to the Tower againe ; where he remained a sennight
after his judgment ; from whence, the day before he suffered, ..."
4. Oxf. Hist. Soc by Oxford Historical Society (1886)
"I'le have a Brace of 2)[uke]s within the sennight, Spite of the Doctrine of that
Doctor К . Abel Evans likewise published (Oxford, 1713)' Vertumnus : an ..."
5. A Circumstantial Report of the Evidence and Proceedings Upon the Charges by Gwyllym Lloyd Wardle (1809)
"... January 20th, Colonel Wardle, one of the Members for Oak ham pton, gave notice
that he intended to submit to the House of Commons, on that day sennight, ..."
6. A Practical Dictionary of the English and German Languages by Felix Flügel, Johann Gottfried Flügel (1861)
"eight; —Sage, a sennight; in — Sagen, in a week, in eight days; ... this day (a)
sennight or (a) week (to come) ; feilte ..."
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