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OE Wærferð tr. Gregory Dialogues (Hatton) (1900) i. x. 83 Se for his lichaman hefinysse & untrumnysse wearð forðfered on sæternes dæge on þam halgan easteræfenne.

a1200 MS Trin. Cambr. in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1873) 2nd Ser. 95 On ester euen gon abuten þe fantston.

1429 in Norfolk Archaeol. (1904) 15 148 (MED) Ye saterday estern even we herieden j acre of lond.

1598 R. Hakluyt tr. Vincent of Beauvais in Princ. Navigations (new ed.) I. 66 Vpon Easter euen we were called vnto the tent.

1797 J. Hey Lect. Divinity II. iii. vi. §2. 49 This part of Scripture [sc. 1 Pet. iii: 19] is still used as the Epistle for Easter Even.

1885 C. H. Davis Lectionary as it might Be (new ed.) 21 In the present Easter-Even lesson, Romans vi.

1980 Church Times 22 Feb. 10/2 The day which the general public insist on calling ‘Easter Saturday’ but which churchpeople know as Holy Saturday or Easter Even.

2002 A. Clarke Polished Hoe (2003) i. 10 That Sunday morning was in the Easter season! It was Easter Even.