vespertide

English

Etymology

vesper +‎ -tide

Noun

vespertide (uncountable)

1. (poetic, archaic) the evening, especially (Christianity) the time at which vespers is prayed
   • 1825, The Literary Gazette, volume 9, page 356:

     And the holy nuns after vespertide, / All forth from the chapel are gone

   • 1860, Jane Crewdson, “The Hermit of Livry”, in Lays of the Reformation, and Other Lyrics, Scriptural and Miscellaneous, page 101:

     And holy Vespertide had rolled / Its fulgent waves of molten gold / Adown the forest bower

   • 1895, “John Zizka”, in Macmillan’s Magazine, volume 72, page 351:

     At vespertide on that summer Sunday, seven or eight thousand cavalry advanced with loud shouting and clang of trumpets against the Ziscaberg, carried an outwork on a lower slope of the hill, and passed on to the tiny fortress above.