anight

English

Etymology

a- +‎ night

Adverb

anight (not comparable)

1. (obsolete) In the night-time, at night.
   • c. 1599 William Shakespeare, As You Like It, Act II, Scene 4,^[1]

     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 […]

   • 1680, Thomas Betterton, The Revenge, or, A Match in Newgate, London: W. Cademan, Act IV, Scene 1, p. 37,^[2]

     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!

   • 1692, The Arraignment, Tryal, Conviction and Condemnation of Henry Harrison, London, p. 18,^[3]

     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.

Anagrams

• hang it, hating