yestern
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English [edit]
Adjective [edit]
yestern (not comparable)
- (archaic, rare) Of or pertaining to yesterday.
- 1868, John Conington (translator), The Iliad of Homer
- Argos, I fear, will pay us soon again
Her yestern debt […]
- Argos, I fear, will pay us soon again
- 1970, Trumbull Stickney, Dramatic Verses[1], Ardent Media, ISBN 9780839818724, page 35:
- For men born of yesterday are yestern
- 1868, John Conington (translator), The Iliad of Homer
Adverb [edit]
yestern (not comparable)
- yesterday
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- 1949, Lionel Trilling, Matthew Arnold[2], Taylor & Francis, ISBN 9780049280182, page 169:
- "F. Newman's book I saw yestern at our ouse," Arnold writes to Clough. "He seems to have written himself down an hass.
- 1949, Lionel Trilling, Matthew Arnold[2], Taylor & Francis, ISBN 9780049280182, page 169:
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Noun [edit]
yestern (plural yesterns)
- yesterday
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- 1839, Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller, “Knight Toggenburg”, in Montagu Montagu editor, The Song of the Bell, and other Poems[3], edition Digitized, published 2006, page 85:
- Yestern was the day of hail, …
- 1840, Amelia Lane, The Fortress: An Historical Tale of the Fifteenth Century[4], edition Digitized, published 2012, page 305:
- Yestern, who was there could compete with me in strength?
- 1977, Bill Reed, Dogod[5], edition Digitized, ISBN 9780170051460, published 2009, page 76:
- For this day ought to promise not so much mulch as yesterday or all the other yesterns all back in a row of boredowndom.
- 2011, Glenn P. Wolfe, Mneme's Place: Book One[6], fiction, iUniverse, ISBN 9781462017157, page 22:
- Jestern, was Joyce's yestern.
- 1839, Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller, “Knight Toggenburg”, in Montagu Montagu editor, The Song of the Bell, and other Poems[3], edition Digitized, published 2006, page 85:
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