Eve
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Definition
(noun.) (Old Testament) Adam's wife in Judeo-Christian mythology: the first woman and mother of the human race; God created Eve from Adam's rib and placed Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden.
(noun.) the day before; 'he always arrives on the eve of her departure'.
(noun.) the period immediately before something; 'on the eve of the French Revolution'.
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Definition
(n.) Evening.
(n.) The evening before a holiday, -- from the Jewish mode of reckoning the day as beginning at sunset. not at midnight; as, Christians eve is the evening before Christmas; also, the period immediately preceding some important event.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [Poetical.] Evening.
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Definition
n. (poet.) evening: the night before a day of note: the time just preceding a great event.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of Adam and Eve, foretells that some eventful occasion will rob you of the hope of success in your affairs. To see them in the garden, Adam dressed in his fig leaf, but Eve perfectly nude save for an Oriental colored serpent ornamenting her waist and abdomen, signifies that treachery and ill faith will combine to overthrow your fortune. To see or hear Eve conversing with the serpent, foretells that artful women will reduce you to the loss of fortune and reputation.
To dream of this ancient character, denotes your hesitancy to accept this ancient story as authentic, and you may encounter opposition in business and social circles because of this doubt. For a young woman to dream that she impersonates Eve, warns her to be careful. She may be wiser than her ancient relative, but the Evil One still has powerful agents in the disguise of a handsome man. Keep your eye on innocent Eve, young man. That apple tree still bears fruit, and you may be persuaded, unwittingly, to share the wealth of its products.
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Examples
- To my inexperience we at first appeared on the eve of a civil war; each party was violent, acrimonious, and unyielding. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- When the massacre of St. Bartholomew’s Eve deluged France with the blood of Protestants Catherine saw that Palissy was spared from the general destruction. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- On Christmas eve of 1801, Trevithick made the initial trip with the first successful steam road locomotive through the streets of Camborne in Cornwall, carrying passengers. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- I was a happy and successful man, Mr. Holmes, and on the eve of being married, when a sudden and dreadful misfortune wrecked all my prospects in life. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- The fallen nature in Rachel--the mother Eve, so to speak--began to chafe at this. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- And when friends are on the eve of separation, they like to spend the little time that remains to them close to each other. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Poland was indeed born as a nation on the eve of her dissolution. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- It was Christmas Eve, and I had to stir the pudding for next day, with a copper-stick, from seven to eight by the Dutch clock. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Adam kept Eve in the indestructible paradise, when he kept her single with himself, like a star in its orbit. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Caroline, I will not; I will stay out here with my mother Eve, in these days called Nature. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- I hear gossip now and then about your being on the eve of marriage with this miss and that; but I suppose it is none of it true? Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- It was a Christmas Eve, too; and I remember that on that very night he told us the story about the goblins that carried away old Gabriel Grub. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- On Midsummer-eve, Adele, weary with gathering wild strawberries in Hay Lane half the day, had gone to bed with the sun. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- For Adam was first formed, then Eve. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- To study the human heart thus, is to banquet secretly and sacrilegiously on Eve's apples. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
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