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Twilight vs Twilitten - What's the difference?

twilight | twilitten |

As adjectives the difference between twilight and twilitten

is that twilight is pertaining to or resembling twilight while twilitten is illuminated by or as if by twilight.

As a noun twilight

is the soft light in the sky seen before the rising and (especially) after the setting of the sun, occasioned by the illumination of the earth’s atmosphere by the direct rays of the sun and their reflection on the earth.

As a verb twilitten is

past participle of twilit.

twilight

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The soft light in the sky seen before the rising and (especially) after the setting of the sun, occasioned by the illumination of the earth’s atmosphere by the direct rays of the sun and their reflection on the earth.
  • :
  • The time when this light is visible; the period between daylight and darkness.
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  • *
  • *:At twilight in the summer there is never anybody to fear—man, woman, or cat—in the chambers and at that hour the mice come out. They do not eat parchment or foolscap or red tape, but they eat the luncheon crumbs.
  • (lb) The time when the sun is less than 18° below the horizon.
  • Any faint light through which something is seen; an in-between or fading condition.
  • *(John Locke) (1632-1705)
  • *:The twilight of probability.

    • Synonyms

    * evenfall, eventide, gloaming

    Coordinate terms

    * evening * golden hour * nightfall * sundown

    Hyponyms

    * dawn * dusk

    Derived terms

    * astronomical twilight * civil twilight * nautical twilight * twilightish * twilighty * twilight years * twilight zone

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Pertaining to or resembling twilight.
    • O’er the twilight groves and dusky caves. —(Alexander Pope).

    See also

    * crepuscular

    twilitten

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • See also

    * twilit * twilighted

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (rare, nonstandard, poetic) Illuminated by or as if by twilight.
  • * 2008 : Terence Scott, Broken Poetry in Abstract Fragmentation , “The Wind that Whispers Crystal Blue”, 2nd verse, on page 32] ([http://www.authorhouse.com/BookStore/ItemDetail.aspx?bookid=56213 AuthorHouse; ISBN 9781438917696)
    • Stars of Night,
    twilitten blue hued,
    black is the sky.
    Blue, to them, match the Moon.
  • * ante'' 2009 : W.G.C., ''Coniston Tales Told , “The Great Circle”, 6th verse, 5th–6th couplet, on page 13] ([https://www.search-it-buy-it.com/sibi/BuyBook.aspx?vId=001&sku=9781110429820 BiblioLife; ISBN 9781110429820)
    • Till at last on an eve came one
    through twilitten ways,
    With foam on his beard, and his eyes
    yet afire with amaze :