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单词 nowanights
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nowanightsadv.

Brit. /ˈnaʊənʌɪts/, U.S. /ˈnaʊəˌnaɪts/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: now adv., a-nights adv.
Etymology: < now adv. + a-nights adv., after nowadays adv.Now usually written as one word.
Now archaic and rare.
At night at the present time, in contrast with the past.
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the world > time > relative time > the present (time) > [adverb]
noweOE
nowtheOE
nughuOE
todayOE
nowthenc1225
orc1275
in presentc1330
in this presentc1330
now by dawec1330
of present1340
presentc1385
nowadays?1387
adaysa1393
nowadaya1393
now on daysa1393
presently?a1425
now of daysc1425
now-o'-daysc1450
at (the) presenta1500
at this presenta1500
nowdaysa1500
currently1579
on the presenta1616
actually1663
nowanights1672
naow1824
at this (or the) present speaking1835
again1837
contemporarily1837
nowdays1850
any more1859
hic et nunc1935
at this moment in time1936
the world > time > day and night > night > [adverb] > in these nights
nowanights1847
1672 W. Wycherley Love in Wood ii. i. 22 For now a nights the jostling Nymph is bolder, Then modern Satyr with his Cloak o're shoulder.
1841 H. D. Thoreau Let. 21 July in Corr. (1958) 44 Now-a-nights I go on to the hill.
1847 F. A. Kemble Rec. Later Life III. 289 Murray's Handbook..and the foreign ‘Bradshaw’. These furnish my lullaby now-a-nights.
1899 E. F. Maitland & F. Pollock Etchingham Lett. xv. 118 Mrs. Vivian now-a-days, or rather now-a-nights, takes Cynthia to and fro pretty often.
1920 M. Beerbohm And Even Now 120 The Golden Drugget is not outspread nowanights across the high dark coast-road between Rapallo and Zoagli.
1939 J. Joyce Finnegans Wake 15 And still nowanights and by nights of yore do all bold floras..say only: Cull me ere I wilt to thee!
2000 Ottawa Citizen 22 May d1 Luckily, a nocturnal shopper in Ottawa has other options nowanights.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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