morningtide

English

Etymology

morning +‎ -tide

Noun

morningtide (uncountable)

1. (poetic, literary, archaic) Morning time.
   • 1908, Edmund Clarence Stedman, In War Time (poem):

     Bright rose the sun of Gettysburg that morrow morningtide,
     And call of trump and roll of drum from height to height replied.

   • 1898, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Passing (poem):

     And in the cold sad light
     Of the early morningtide,
     The dear dead girl came back
     And stood by his beside.

References

• “morningtide”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.