evetide

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

A variant of eventide; equivalent to eve +‎ tide.

Noun[edit]

evetide (plural evetides)

  1. (archaic, poetic) evening
    • Thomas Hardy, And There Was a Great Calm, III:
      The feeble folk at home had grown full-used / To 'dug-outs', 'snipers', 'Huns', from the war-adept / In the mornings heard, and at eventides perused; / To day-dreamt men in millions, when they mused-- / to nightmare-men in millions when they slept.
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