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Definition of Midmonth
1. Adjective. Occurring in the middle of a month, neither at the beginning nor the end ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Midmonth
1. the middle of the month [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Midmonth
Literary usage of Midmonth
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George H Warner (1902)
"For already, when the altars had been sanctified to his sire, the midmonth Moon,
riding her golden car, lit full the counter- flame of the eye of Even, ..."
2. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, John Taylor Coleridge, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, William Macpherson, William Smith (1886)
"The midmonth moon in car of gold lit up right before him the eye of eve,' % is
what would now be called a word-picture ; and so is the phrase in which he ..."
3. The Growth and Influence of Classical Greek Poetry: Lectures Delivered in by Richard Claverhouse Jebb (1894)
"... steeped in that softer radiance of which Pindar speaks, when " the full orb
of the midmonth moon " looked down at evening on feast and music and song. ..."
4. Estonia and the Estonians by Toivo U. Raun (2001)
"August 1988 was once again dominated by the specter of the Molotov-Ribbentrop
Pact: in midmonth both the Estonian daily Rahva Hdal and the Russian-language ..."
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