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# eventide

«eventide» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: **evening** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### kind

archaic word

### modern equivalent

evening

### part of speech

noun

### meaning for a pupil

the evening, the time when the day is ending. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/E/eventide/#m1)

### how it differs from today

An old word, rarely used today; we say evening.

### examples

- And Isaac went out to meditate in the field at the eventide; and he lifted up his eyes, and saw, and, behold, there were camels coming. (Torah GEN.24.63, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/E/eventide/#x1)
- So at eventide they all lay down on the floor, and beside them they set a lighted taper hidden in an earthen pot. (Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/E/eventide/#x2)
- And the dove came in to him at eventide; and lo in her mouth an olive-leaf freshly plucked; so Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth. (Torah GEN.8.11, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/E/eventide/#x3)

### primary record

eventide

### tests

rate: word (≥3 uses, never in EWT or ≥10× EWT, Wiktionary: first sense archaic); corpora 5 (Torah 2, tales 3, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 0.6 (Torah alone 4.7); Wiktionary archaic (first sense)

### In the corpora

- [At eventide behold terror; and before the morning they are not.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.373/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «eventide» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/E/eventide/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.