seedtime
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of seedtime
before 1000; Middle English; Old English sǣdtīma. See seed, time
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To understand it, we need to go back to what can accurately be termed the seedtime of sexism.
From Salon ● Oct. 23, 2022
Eliot, Perse tells of the seedtime of history.
From Time Magazine Archive
But in the few precious weeks of seedtime, every day, every hour is of moment.
From In the School-Room Chapters in the Philosophy of Education by John S. (John Seely) Hart
But a more sacred seedtime than all these is the procreation of children, and therefore Sophocles did well to call Aphrodite "fruitful Cytherea."
From Plutarch's Morals by Arthur Richard Shilleto
His disciples thought they had never seen such promise in His life as at this hour: seedtime seemed to them to be past, and the harvest at hand.
From The Expositor's Bible: The Gospel of St John, Vol. II by Marcus Dods
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