noun
sennight
Sennight (noun) means Another word for a week, a stretch of seven days and nights.
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Another word for a week, a stretch of seven days and nights.
"As for his marriage with the Lady Margaret, fixed though it was for this day sennight, the thing was so palpably absurd that he scarcely gave it a thought."
— Virginia Woolf (1928)
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Etymology
Came from Middle English senight, senyght, sinight (“sevennight, a week”) [and other forms], itself a shortened form of seven-night, sevenight, sevenyght [and other forms], from Late Old English seofeniht (compare seofonnihte, “seven days old; seven days long”, an adjective), formed from seofon (“seven”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *septḿ̥ (“seven”), and niht (“night; day, when computing spans of time”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *nókʷts (“night”). It is a doublet of sevennight.
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"sennight" (noun) means another word for a week, a stretch of seven days and nights.
