Yestertime

adv, noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Time previous to the present; the past.
Adverb
  1. 1
    In times past, at a prior time; in the past. not-comparable

    "And at last I came back to me, after sailing on surgeful waves; at this moment, between the Present and the Future, the Past and the Present, — forgetting what the world was, yestertime,—forgetting what I was, yestertime."

Example

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"And at last I came back to me, after sailing on surgeful waves; at this moment, between the Present and the Future, the Past and the Present, — forgetting what the world was, yestertime,—forgetting what I was, yestertime."

Etymology

From yester- + time.

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