English
Etymology
Shortened form of sevennight.
Noun
en-noun
- Seven days and nights; a week.
#*1928, w:Virginia Woolf|Virginia Woolf, w:Orlando:_A_Biography|Orlando
#*: As for his marriage with the Lady Margaret, fixed though it was for this day sennight, the thing was so palpably absurd that he scarcely gave it a thought.
See also
#fortnight
References
#R:Webster 1828
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