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yeartide Aug 28th 2012, 17:48 ‎English: ← Older revision Revision as of 17:48, 28 August 2012 Line 2: Line 2:       ===Etymology===   ===Etymology=== − An Early Modern English term, coined as part of the backlash against [[w:Inkhorn terms|inkhorn terms]], from {{compound|year|tide|t2=time, occasion|lang=en}}. Compare {{etyl|fy|-}} {{term|jiertiid||season|lang=fy}}, {{etyl|nl|-}} {{term|jaartijd||season|lang=nl}}. + From {{compound|year|tide|t2=time, occasion|lang=en}}. Compare {{etyl|fy|-}} {{term|jiertiid||season|lang=fy}}, {{etyl|nl|-}} {{term|jaartijd||season|lang=nl}}.       ===Noun===   ===Noun===   {{en-noun}}   {{en-noun}}     − # [[anniversary]]. + # A specific [[time]] of [[year]]; [[season]]. − # {{rare}} time of year, [[season]]. + #*'''1907''', Union of American Hebrew Congregations, ''Young Israel'':   + #*: [...] And promised whatever the '''yeartides''' would bring To this wish of his friend he would fervently cling.   + #*'''1958''', American Jewish Congress, ''Judaism'':   + #*: Or phylacteries on skulls unyielding, While our river of days flows dark With a '''yeartide''' of days, a '''yeartide''' of nights Unhallowed, unhallowed?   + #*'''1985''', Percy Grainger, Kay Dreyfus, ''The farthest north of humanness'':   + #*: Peter & 2-Js & I joined in a flower bunch, besides which I also sent her a 15 bob sheaf on my own, with gum-leafage — the sole homish stuff havable here at this '''yeartide''' — there among.   + # A specific time each year; [[anniversary]].   + #*'''1921''', Emma Kenyon Parrish, ''The golden island'':   + #*: A-dream, we rock at home. So, lasting-sweet is sleep : With sails forever furled. Forgot is all the world, And soft the '''yeartides''' creep : O sweet, O lasting sleep!   + #*'''2006''', Gene Wolfe, ''The Wizard: Book Two of The Wizard Knight'':   + #*: There will be a tourney in three days, as always at '''Yeartide'''. You could enter those events at which you may excel.

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