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Sennight   Listen
noun
Sennight  n.  (Written also se'nnight)  The space of seven nights and days; a week. (Archaic.)






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Sennight" Quotes from Famous Books



... come to you, for her father has set women to watch her, but she bid me tell you that this day sennight will be the eve of St. John and the night of her betrothal to Namara of the Lake, and she would have you there that, when they bid her drink to him she loves best, as the way is, she may drink to you, Tumaus Costello, and let all know where her heart is, ...
— The Secret Rose • W. B. Yeats

... that we are come out of it very well,' Lascelles said. 'You may pray and then sleep more calm than ever you have done this sennight.' ...
— The Fifth Queen Crowned • Ford Madox Ford



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