nightly

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adv each evening; after dark

adjective. happening at night

Old English nihtlic "nocturnal, of the night, at night;" see night + -ly (1). As an adverb, Middle English nihtlich, from the adjective.

This was the sword which hung daily, nightly, over our heads.

Do we not nightly jumble events and personages and times and places, as these do daily?

Some that smote the breast nightly in the anguish of remorse.

He did all this in the absent manner of a man who did it nightly.

"You might change her sentry nightly," put in the Seneschal.

And now she remembered the policeman who kept nightly vigil at the avenue crossing!

Fortune favors us, almost nightly, with beautiful abiding-places.

On a high sandy terrace, a mile or so below, we pitch our nightly camp.

There are daily and nightly watches along the shores of the lake.

They built the nightly fires circling the camp to keep out the animals.