witching hour.

A late-night time traditionally associated with heightened supernatural activity or uncanny events.

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Words that belong together

• the witching hour
• midnight’s witching hour

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The tale placed the knocking in the witching hour, though the clock had long stopped.

She disliked the phrase witching hour because it made an ordinary delay sound like a warning.

Usage notes

Primary category: horror. Forms: Singular witching hour; plural witching hours. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.