sennight
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of sennight
First recorded before 1000; Middle English sevenyht, seoveniht(e), sennyght, etc., Old English seofon nihta; see origin at seven, night
Example Sentences
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The Jews had celebrated their Pentecost the sennight before, to commemorate Moses' giving their ancestors the Ten Commandments 50 days after the Exodus from Egypt.
From Time Magazine Archive
It closed in Manhattan last sennight, having run 107 weeks, costing its "angel," Edgar B. Davis, an estimated 10% of his estimated $15,000,000 oil fortune.
From Time Magazine Archive
Experts of other banks estimated that $329,000,000 more were withdrawn during the following sennight.
From Time Magazine Archive
In a sennight I will tell you the tale of what I have bethought me with my friends.
From The Nibelungenlied by Daniel Bussier Shumway
We must well beware Of letting these ride homeward, unless ourselves we fare Within a sennight after straight into Etzel's land.
From The Nibelungenlied Revised Edition by Unknown
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