autumntide

English

Etymology

autumn +‎ -tide

Noun

autumntide (plural autumntides)

  1. (dated, literary) Autumntime.
    • 1890 November, Susie E. Kennedy, “Autumntide”, in Vick’s Monthly Magazine, volume 13, page 359:
      A beauty overlies— / Wond’rous as wide— / It is the golden glow / Of autumntide.
    • 1901, Alfred H. Hyatt, “October”, in From a Middlesex Garden: A Book of Garden Thoughts, page 241:
      Autumntide is here again, / Fading leaf and falling rain, / Cloud-strewn sky and sodden plain
    • 1923, Clovis G. Chappell, More Sermons on Biblical Characters, page 74:
      Appreciate the sunrises and the sunsets, the springtimes and the autumntides, the comforts of home, the handclasp of friends, the confidence of associates, the clinging love of the inner circle.
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