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Sennight

//ˈsɛnaɪt// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A period of seven consecutive days and nights; a week. archaic, obsolete, poetic

    "I dranke not this sennet / A draught to my pay; / Elynour, I thé pray, / Of thyne ale let vs assay, […]"

  2. 2
    Preceded by a specified day such as Sunday, today, or yesterday: a week from (either before or after) the specified day. archaic, attributive, obsolete, poetic

    ", week last and sevennight"

  3. 3
    Preceded by a specified day and come: a week after the specified day. obsolete

    "And Mrs. Jevvkes tells me, every one names Thurſday come Sev'nnight for our Nuptials."

  4. 4
    Preceded by a specified day and gone or was: a week before the specified day. obsolete

    "Sir Robert Pringle and John Hunter attended the meeting of Heritors intimated here on Sunday gone a se'enight."

Etymology

From Middle English senight, senyght, sinight (“seven days or nights, a week”) [and other forms], a shortened form of seven-night, sevenight, sevenyght [and other forms], from Late Old English seofeniht (compare seofonnihte (“seven days old; seven days long”, adjective)), from seofon (“seven”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *septḿ̥ (“seven”)) + niht (“night; day (when computing spans of time)”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *nókʷts (“night”)). Doublet of sevennight.

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