Falltide

noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Falltime (the season between summer and winter); autumntide. archaic, countable, poetic, rare, uncountable

    "It is no latter-day degeneracy of individuals who cannot contact the world immediately; no nervous falling-off of an over-ripe society to whom luxuries are become organically necessary, that brings back the hunger each falltide."

Example

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"It is no latter-day degeneracy of individuals who cannot contact the world immediately; no nervous falling-off of an over-ripe society to whom luxuries are become organically necessary, that brings back the hunger each falltide."

Etymology

From fall + -tide.

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