interlunationn.
/ɪntəluːˈneɪʃən/ The period between the old and new moon; figurative a blank or dark interval.
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full moonOE
new moonOE
waningc1000
new of the moona1398
quarter?a1425
plenilune?a1475
neomeniaa1535
lunationc1549
interlune1561
wane1563
neomeny1569
dark of the moon1591
month of apparition1594
dark moon1615
plenilunium1615
moon1709
interlunation1813
quartering1880
1813 Jeffrey Let. in Cockburn Life II. lxiv This interlunation of your parliamentary course.
a1822 P. B. Shelley Def. Poetry in Prose Wks. (1888) II. 34 The vanishing apparitions which haunt the interlunations of life.
1854 J. D. Burns Vision Prophecy 201 The great interlunation of its mind.
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