seedtime
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of seedtime
before 1000; Middle English; Old English sǣdtīma. See seed, time
Example Sentences
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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
"While the earth remaineth," so God is represented as assuring Noah, "seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night, shall not cease."
From Miracles and Supernatural Religion by Whiton, James Morris
Few men have cast the bread upon greater waters, have sown the seed over a wider area, or had to mourn more sadly over those heart-breaking months which intervene between the seedtime and the harvest.
From James Gilmour of Mongolia His diaries, letters, and reports by Gilmour, James
The field is wide, and the months between seedtime and harvest are long; but all the husbandmen have been engaged in the same great work, and though they have toiled alone shall “rejoice together.”
From The Expositor's Bible: Colossians and Philemon by Maclaren, Alexander
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