morningtide

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English

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Etymology

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From morning +‎ -tide.

Noun

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morningtide (uncountable)

  1. (poetic, literary, archaic) Morning time.
    • 1908, Edmund Clarence Stedman, In War Time (poem):
      Bright rose the sun of Gettysburg that morrow morningtide,
      And call of trump and roll of drum from height to height replied.
    • 1898, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Passing (poem):
      And in the cold sad light
      Of the early morningtide,
      The dear dead girl came back
      And stood by his beside.

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