Word of the Day: HODIERN

ETYMOLOGY
from Latin hodiernus, from hodie (to-day)

EXAMPLE
“…Hale, sterne superne, hale, in eterne
 In Godis sicht to schyne,
Lucerne in derne for to discerne,
 Be glory and grace devyne.
Hodiern, modern, sempitern,
 Angelicall regyne,
Our tern inferne for to dispern,
 Helpe, rialest rosyne…”

From: The Poems of William Dunbar (1998)
Ballad of our Lady, a1513