yeartideとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

yeartide (plural yeartides) (puristic)

1. (chiefly poetic or fantasy) A specific 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.

   • 1921, Emma Kenyon Parrish, The Golden Island, page 8:

     And soft the yeartides creep:
     O sweet, O lasting sleep!

   • 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: Letters of Percy Grainger, 1901–1914:

     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.

2. (nonstandard, rare) 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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• yeartime