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Definition of Eleventh hour
1. Noun. The latest possible moment. "At the last minute the government changed the rules"
Definition of Eleventh hour
1. Noun. (idiomatic) A point in time which is nearly too late; the last minute. ¹
2. Noun. (idiomatic usually hyphenated) (non-gloss definition Used attributively.) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Eleventh Hour
Literary usage of Eleventh hour
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of George Fox by George Fox (1831)
"Next day towards the eleventh hour, we were called again to hear the sentence;
and Margaret Fell being called first to the bar, she had counsel to plead, ..."
2. The Diplomatic Relations of England with the Quadruple Alliance, 1815-1830 by Louis Calvert, Myrna M. Boyce, Paul Padgette (1918)
"CHAPTER XII THE " TONE " OF A PERFORMANCE Where the Real Charm of a Charming Play
Lies—The Eleventh-hour Rescue of Kismet—Keeping One's Comedy in ..."
3. Our Wild Indians: Thirty-three Years Personal Experience Among the Red Men by Richard Irving Dodge (1884)
"... Bands — Four Days' of Su Bering — Sticking it Out to the Bitter End — Recognition
and Reward — Rushing in at the eleventh hour — Carrying off the Prize ..."
4. Annals of the French Stage from Its Origin to the Death of Racine by Frederick William Hawkins (1884)
"... from Aulis to the Phrygian shore will set iu, but at the eleventh hour it is
found that another princess of the name is the victim intended by the gods. ..."
5. Ordeal by Battle by Frederick Scott Oliver (1915)
"... but at the eleventh hour Austria appears suddenly to have realised for herself
the appalling nature of the catastrophe which impended. ..."
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