单词 | nowanights |
释义 | nowanightsadv. Now archaic and rare. At night at the present time, in contrast with the past. ΘΚΠ 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). < adv.1672 |
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