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View synonyms for seedtime

seedtime

[seed-tahym]

noun

  1. the season for sowing seed.



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Word History and Origins

Origin of seedtime1

before 1000; Middle English; Old English sǣdtīma. See seed, time
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Example Sentences

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To understand it, we need to go back to what can accurately be termed the seedtime of sexism.

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“While the earth remaineth,” he decided, according to the King James Bible, “seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.”

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Heno was said to gather the clouds and pour out the warm rain; he was the patron of husbandry, and was invoked at seedtime and harvest.

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While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.”

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In this way the seasons, as well as the elements of the soil, are so modified and vitalized as to give to man seedtime and harvest, and needful food to every "living and creeping thing."

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