noontide
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noontide
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From Middle English non-tyde, from Old English nōntīd (“noontide”), equivalent to noon + tide.
noun noontides
- Midday, noon. […] I haue bedymn'd / The Noone tide Sun, call'd forth the mutenous windes, / And twixt the greene Sea, and the azur'd vault / Set roaring warre: […]
- Climax; high point. Yet there are noble passages in his later poems: and even the latest have their own peculiar charm of serenity and kindliness,—a tranquil sunset, as it were, succeeding not unmeetly to the fiery splendours of his noontide course.
