Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Approaching night; of or pertaining to evening.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Approaching toward night.
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- adjective Toward
night .
Etymologies
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Examples
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So the gray car crept nightward in the dark and there was no life stirred as it went by ....
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It was getting nightward, after all, and Al had no lantern, so nobody'd ever even notice he was there.
Prentice Alvin Card, Orson Scott 1989
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Jessica has floated out of herself, up to watch herself watching the night, to hover in widelegged, shoulderpadded white, satin-polished on her nightward surfaces.
Gravity's Rainbow Pynchon, Thomas 1978
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So the gray car crept nightward in the dark and there was no life stirred as it went by ....
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So the gray car crept nightward in the dark and there was no life stirred as it went by ....
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Yet, that you may see that I am something suspicious of myself, and do take notice of a certain belatedness in me, I am the bolder to send you some of my nightward thoughts some while since, because they come in not altogether unfitly, made up in a Petrarchian stanza, which I told you of:
Selected English Letters Various 1913
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I would say that it came at the end of some particular day's journey; that it lies in the twilight at the conclusion of twenty miles of dusty road; that it lies one hour nightward of a blow-out.
Journeys to Bagdad 1906
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At the sunward edge of these regions, once in eighty-eight days, or once in a Mercurial year, the sun rises to an elevation of forty-seven degrees, and then descends again straight to the horizon from which it rose; at the nightward edge, once in eighty-eight days, the sun peeps above the horizon and quickly sinks from sight again.
Other Worlds Their Nature, Possibilities and Habitability in the Light of the Latest Discoveries 1890
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And the day sweeps round to the nightward; and heavy and hard the waves
Poems and Ballads (Third Series) Taken from The Collected Poetical Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne—Vol. III Algernon Charles Swinburne 1873
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Perhaps, as if clouds that had parted, sending a sunbeam across from the west upon the dark sorrow of the morning, had shut again, inexorably, leaving him still to tread the nightward path under the old, leaden sky.
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