se'nnight

se'nnight (plural se'nnights)

1. Alternative form of sennight
   • 1948 (1st collected edition 1953), Isaac Asimov, “Two Men and a Peasant”, in Second Foundation, New York, N.Y.: Del Rey, published 2020, →ISBN, part I (Search by the Mule), page 41:

     Old woman, what was it the village Elders said a se'nnight since? Eh? Stir your memory.

se'nnight (not comparable)

1. Alternative form of sennight
   • 1813 January 27, [Jane Austen], chapter XVIII, in Pride and Prejudice: […], volume I, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 224:

     It will be in my power to assure him that her ladyship was quite well yesterday se'nnight.

   • 1815 December (indicated as 1816), [Jane Austen], chapter XIII, in Emma: […], volume I, London: […] [Charles Roworth and James Moyes] for John Murray, →OCLC, page 244:

     I was snowed up at a friend's house once for a week. Nothing could be pleasanter. I went for only one night, and could not get away till that very day se'nnight.

   • 1803 (date written), [Jane Austen], chapter II, in Northanger Abbey; published in Northanger Abbey: And Persuasion. […], volume I, London: John Murray, […], 20 December 1817 (indicated as 1818), →OCLC, pages 26–27:

     We leave Bath, as she has perhaps told you, on Saturday se'nnight.

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