sennight

1. (archaic, poetic or obsolete)Examples: "I dranke not this sennet / A draught to my pay; / Elynour, I thé pray, / Of thyne ale let vs assay, […]"; "Marry he trots hard vvith a yong maid, betvveen the contract of her marriage, and the day it is ſolemnizd: if the interim be but a ſennight, Times pace is ſo hard, that it ſeemes the length of ſeuen yeare."; "I was not bit enough to stand up to Edward personally, so I had to console the sufferer by allowing him to grease the wheels of the donkey-cart—a luscious treat that had been specially reserved for me, a sennight past, by the gardener's boy, for putting in a good word on his behalf with the new kitchen-maid."Synonyms: sevennightarchaicobsoletepoetic

2. (archaic, poetic or obsolete)Examples: ", week last and sevennight"; "It will be in my power to assure him that her ladyship was quite well yesterday se'nnight."; "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."Synonyms: weekarchaicattributiveobsoletepoetic

3. (obsolete)Examples: "And Mrs. Jevvkes tells me, every one names Thurſday come Sev'nnight for our Nuptials."Synonyms: sevennightobsolete

4. (obsolete)Examples: "Sir Robert Pringle and John Hunter attended the meeting of Heritors intimated here on Sunday gone a se'enight."Synonyms: sevennightobsolete