The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sennight \Sen"night\, n. [Contr. fr. sevennight.]
The space of seven nights and days; a week. [Written also
se'nnight.] [Archaic.]
--Shak.
--Tennyson.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
adv. 1 (context archaic English) After a sennight has passed. 2 (context archaic English) A sennight ago. n. (context archaic English) A period of seven nights; a week.
Usage examples of "sennight".
Six months last sennight Judith here was sorely threatened with the Falling Sickness--hast thou heard of the Antepileptic Crow, sister?
There were no tracks in the smooth mantle of snow that led up to the narrow dark opening in the stone wall, but it had been snowing heavily and almost steadily in these mountains for the past sennight, and even the meanest outlaws knew enough to use brooms on the snow to conceal their tracks.
Kirkburough could be taken in a day, and Warrick would be back in less than a sennight to prove it.
But he had already missed the first diligencia of the season to Vindium, and the next would not depart for three sennights.
Another sennight had gone by, and Tyra was in the exercise arena, practicing battle skills with other members of the Varangian Guard.
But, she had heard of ailments such as putrid fever that could take one away in less than a sennight.
They followed his smaller group of retainers who had accompanied him back two sennights ago.
He drew his lips in thoughtfully at the prospect, one he had been weighing these two sennights since his return.
She now had three sennights to prepare for her wedding, and Eirik's eventual discovery of her deceit.
Eadyth said dryly to Tykir Thorksson, who sat next to her on the dais at her wedding feast three sennights later day.
The answer is nay, but I have resigned myself to the marriage in the three sennights of Eadyth's absence," he said warily.
Since her departure three sennights, ago, their numbers had increased dramatically, no doubt due to the spreading word of the master's return and betrothal.
Could he risk making love to Eadyth and possibly planting his seed in her womb when there was even the remotest possibility that her charade these past few sennights connected somehow with Steven of Gravely?
He had not bedded a woman for many, many sennights, and his body craved satisfaction between a woman's thighs.
And he had been without a woman since before his betrothal, ten sennights ago.