单词 | midnightly |
释义 | midnightlyadj. Taking place at midnight, or every midnight; characteristic of or resembling midnight. ΚΠ 1874 Fraser's Mag. July 119/1 Full often I mervaille, starlet, in midnightly musings y'lost. a1883 E. FitzGerald tr. Farīd-Uddīn Attar in Lett. & Lit. Remains (1889) II. 476 The Midnightly Watcher in the Folds Of his own Darkness God Almighty holds. 1905 Westm. Gaz. 25 Feb. 16/3 Not exactly a fog, but a midnightly darkness, black as pitch, and raw and damp. 1996 Washington Times 29 Dec. b8/2 Redemptive concepts of Nietzschean amor fati..and the overmastering power of self-created ‘midnightly men’. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). midnightlyadv. Now rare. Every midnight. ΘΚΠ the world > time > day and night > night > [adverb] > at or after midnight midnightly1836 to (also till) all hours1931 1836 Fraser's Mag. 14 107 ‘The Highflyer’..rushed midnightly through a village about nine miles distant. 1873 C. G. Leland Egyptian Sketch-bk. 194 To this day he may be seen midnightly..counting the graves and waiting his turn. 1891 G. Du Maurier Peter Ibbetson ii, in Harper's Mag. July 166/2 Quentin Durward, happy squire of dames, rode midnightly by their side through the gibbet-and-gypsy-haunted forests. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1874adv.1836 |
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