Middle English Dictionary Entry
ēvening n.(1)
Entry Info
| Forms | ēvening n.(1) |
| Etymology | OE ǣfnung. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
Evening; the part of the day between sunset and dark.
Associated quotations
- c1275(?a1200) Lay.Brut (Clg A.9)30419 : Riht to þan euening þa fleh Cadwalan þe king.
- c1300 SLeg.Jas.(LdMisc 108)228 : In þe eueningue riȝht Seint Ieme cam to him ride.
- c1300 SLeg.Becket (LdMisc 108)689 : In þe Eueninge he bad is knaue to steken þe dore faste.
- a1325(c1280) SLeg.Pass.(Pep 2344)2085 : In the euenynge..Amydde his disciples Ihesus stod.
- c1325(c1300) Glo.Chron.A (Clg A.11)6382 : He let caste þis traitour in þe eueninge late At an fenestre in temese.
- c1330(?c1300) Guy(1) (Auch)5017 : In an euening þai com to þe cite.
- ?a1425(?c1350) NHom.(3) Pass.(RwlPoet 175)678 : It was in þe euenyng late.
- (c1384) WBible(1) (Dc 369(2))Mark 11.11 : Whanne the our was now euenyng.
- (c1384) WBible(1) (Dc 369(2))Mat.20.8 : Whenne euenynge was maad [WB(2): was comun].
- a1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)6385 : It come at morn and euening.
- c1425(a1420) Lydg.TB (Aug A.4)1.2732 : Þe heuenyng be-gonne for to dirke.
- a1425 Siege Troy(1) (LinI 150)985 : Þo spak Menolay, of grece kyng, To his barones an euenyng.
- c1400(c1378) PPl.B (LdMisc 581)11.331 : In euenynges also ȝe[de] males fro femeles.
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)144 : Evenynge, þe laste parte of þe day: Vesper, vespera.
- a1450(1391) Chaucer Astr.(Benson-Robinson)2.6 : The spryng of the dawenyng and the ende of the evenyng, the whiche ben called the two crepuscules.
- a1450(1391) Chaucer Astr.(Benson-Robinson)2.6.11 : With the point of thy label fynd in the bordure the ende of the evenyng, that is verrey nyght.
- c1450 Ponthus (Dgb 185)2/23 : Thei schuld in the evynnyng goo into the town.
- ?a1475 Ludus C.(Vsp D.8)37/72 : I pray to god me grawnt þis bone that he me kepe in such A plyght mornynge, hevenynge, mydday and none.
- a1500(?c1450) Florence (Cmb Ff.2.38:Vietor)1458 : Hyt drewe to þe euenynge.