Nightly
['naɪtlɪ] or ['naɪtli]
Definition
(adj.) happening every night; 'nightly television now goes on until 3:00 or 4:00 a.m.' .
(adv.) at the end of each day; 'she checks on her roses nightly'.
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Definition
(a.) Of or pertaining to the night, or to every night; happening or done by night, or every night; as, nightly shades; he kept nightly vigils.
(adv.) At night; every night.
Typist: Pierce
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Nocturnal.
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Examples
- Mrs. Bute at the parsonage nightly looked out to see if the sky was red over the elms behind which the Hall stood, and the mansion was on fire. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- There was a glimmer of nightly rabbits across the ground. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Sir Pitt lived in private, and boozed nightly with Horrocks, his butler or house-steward (as he now began to be called), and the abandoned Ribbons. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- It has been hard work to establish order here, and make the Fellowships what it is, and it is daily and nightly hard work to keep it so. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- They never romped, they talked but little, they never sang, save in the nightly prayer-meeting. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- This yielded good practice nightly, lasting until 12 and 1 o'clock, and was maintained for some time until Mr. Edison became willing that his son should stay up for a reasonable time. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- They had it in charge to prepare our halting places and our nightly abode. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
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