evetide

English

Etymology

A variant of eventide; equivalent to eve +‎ tide.

Noun

evetide (plural evetides)

1. (archaic, poetic) evening
   • Thomas Hardy, And There Was a Great Calm, III:

     The feeble folk at home had grown full-used / To 'dug-outs', 'snipers', 'Huns', from the war-adept / In the mornings heard, and at eventides perused; / To day-dreamt men in millions, when they mused-- / to nightmare-men in millions when they slept.