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noonday|ˈnuːndeɪ|
[f. noon n. + day n. Cf. ONorw. nóndagr.]
1. The middle of the day; mid-day.
1535Coverdale Job xi. 17 Then shulde thy life be as cleare as the noone daye. c1586C'tess Pembroke Ps. xxxvii. iv, The glory of noone day. 1660Trial Regic. 53 It is as clear as the Noon-day, that this was not the House of Commons. 1706E. Ward Wooden World Diss. (1708) 47 It's Noon-day with them, and they look no farther. 1821Byron Heav. & Earth iii. 917 The pleasant trees that o'er our noonday bent. 1893W. Forbes-Mitchell Remin. Gt. Mutiny 26 It was clear as noonday to the meanest capacity.
fig.1869Craik Hist. Eng. Lit. II. 1 Our national literature..had its noonday in..the last quarter of the sixteenth and the first of the seventeenth century.
b. Freq. in phr. at († the) noonday.
1535Coverdale 2 Sam. iv. 5 He laye vpon his bed at the noone daie. 1596Dalrymple tr. Leslie's Hist. Scot. vi. 317 As may be seine ouer all cleirer than the sone at Nune day. 1651H. L'Estrange Answ. Mrq. Worc. 12 [That] we must not walk abroad at high noon-day without a Torch. 1700T. Brown Lett. fr. Dead 234 My Minor is as plain as the Sun at Noon-day. 1780Cowper Progr. Err. 451 Judgment drunk,..Winks hard, and talks of darkness at noon-day. 1850Marsden Early Puritans (1853) 141 Prisons in..which he could not see his hand at noonday. 1867Trollope Chron. Barset I. iv. 31 That he was not a thief was as clear to her as the sun at noonday.
†c. So at noondays. Obs.
1537Latimer Serm. Convocation A vij b, They are to be lyghted with waxe candelles,..yea at noone dayes. 1574G. Harvey Letter-bk. (Camden) 66 Is it not cleerer than the sun at noondayes. 1611Cotgr. s.v. Midi, He that looks for night at noone-dayes may well be tearmed mad, or blind.
2. attrib., as noonday comfort, noonday dream, noonday light, etc.; † noonday devil (see noon n. 6 b).
1651Jer. Taylor Serm. for Year ii. 350 At this day some of the Russians fear the Noon-day Devil. 1656Earl of Monmouth tr. Boccalini's Advt. fr. Parnass. 80 The noon-day comfort of a great Tree standing in his Court-yard. 1674Ch. & Crt. of Rome 5 In this Noon-day Light of Christian Knowledge. 1712Addison Spect. No. 441 ⁋11 My Noon⁓day Walks he shall attend. 1781Cowper Charity 398 Di'monds..Reflect the noon-day glory of the skies. 1791Burke Let. to Member Nat. Assembly Wks. VI. 20 The then noon-day splendour of the civilized world. 1815Shelley Alastor 420 The noonday sun Now shone upon the forest. 1820― Cloud 4, I bear light shade for the leaves when laid In their noonday dreams. 1873‘Ouida’ Pascarèl I. 69 They would run out..to fetch me a noonday meal of coffee..and little patties. |