Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for FORT'NIGHT
FORT'NIGHT, n. [fort'nit. contracted from fourteen nights, our ancestors reckoning time by nights and winters; so also, sevennights, sennight, a week. Non dierum numerum, ut nos, sed noctium computant. Tacitus.]
The space of fourteen days; two weeks.
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