anight
adv/əˈnaɪt/
Etymology From a- + night.
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Obsolete In the night-time, at night.
- I remember, when I was in love, I broke my sword upon a stone, and bid him take that for coming a-night to Jane Smile […]c. 1598–1600 (date written), William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iv]:
- I speak very kinde things of you between my Maid and I anight as I am going to bed, and next my Prayers too, Heaven forgive me!1680, Thomas Betterton, The Revenge, or, A Match in Newgate, London: W. Cademan, act IV, scene 1, page 37:
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- My Lord, there stands in Court one Thomas Johnson, Apprentice to Mr. Pemmel; he can tell what time a-night it was I came to Mr. Humston’s, he let me in; I desire he may be call’d.1692, The Arraignment, Tryal, Conviction and Condemnation of Henry Harrison, London, page 18: