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Definition of Fortnights
1. fortnight [n] - See also: fortnight
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fortnights
Literary usage of Fortnights
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques & Discoveries of the English by Richard Hakluyt (1903)
"THE ENGLISH VOYAGES name) to Island, it is not above a fortnights sailing with
an ordinarie winde, and hath bene of many yeeres a very common and usuall ..."
2. The Satapatha-brâhmana: According to the Text of the Mâdhyandina School by Julius Eggeling (1897)
"the Yavas, doubtless, are the first (light) fortnights ... share on the first
fortnights, he bestowed lordship on the latter fortnights;—'the creatures are ..."
3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"The lunar month is divided into two fortnights ... simply, by the amanta system
the dark fortnights of Chaitra and ..."
4. Journal of the American Oriental Society by American Oriental Society (1898)
"From the smoke it goes unto night, from night to day, from day to the dark
fortnights, from the dark fortnights to the bright fortnights, from the bright ..."
5. Folklore by Folklore Society (Great Britain) (1894)
"... bane = Three fortnights, whole fortnights, It is from St. Thomas's Day [December
2ist] in the Christmas to white St. Bridget's Day [February ist] (see ..."
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