tidings

[Ti·dings]

Tidings is an old fashioned word for recent news. If someone says "I bring you good tidings!" it means they have information to share that you'll probably like.

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Account of what has taken place, and was not before known; news.

Noun
new information about specific and timely events; "they awaited news of the outcome"

n.
Account of what has taken place, and was not before known; news.

Tidings

Ti"dings , n. pl. [OE. tidinge, tiinge, tidinde, from or influenced by Icel. t'c6indi; akin to Dan. tidende, Sw. tidning, G. zeung, AS. t'c6dan to happen, E. betide, tide. See Tide, v. i. & n.] Account of what has taken place, and was not before known; news.

I shall make my master glad with these tidings.

Full well the busy whisper, circling round, Conveyed the dismal tidings when he frowned.

&hand; Although tidings is plural in form, it has been used also as a singular. By Shakespeare it was used indiscriminately as a singular or plural.

Now near the tidings of our comfort is.

Tidings to the contrary Are brought your eyes.

Syn. -- News; advice; information; intelligence. -- Tidings, News. The term news denotes recent intelligence from any quarter; the term tidings denotes intelligence expected from a particular quarter, showing what has there betided. We may be indifferent as to news, but are always more or less interested in tidings. We read the news daily; we wait for tidings respecting an absent friend or an impending battle. We may be curious to hear the news; we are always anxious for tidings.

Evil news rides post, while good news baits.

What tidings dost thou bring?

Account of what has taken place, and was not before known; news.

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Usage Examples

As to those who hoard gold and silver and spend it not in God's path, give them, then, the tidings of a painful agony: on a day when these things shall be heated in hell-fire, and their foreheads, and their sides, and their backs shall be branded therewith.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.

We want to take good tidings home to our people, that they may sleep in peace.