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English
Etymology
From yester- + morn.
Adverb
yestermorn (not comparable)
- (now rare, archaic) During the morning of yesterday; yesterday morning.
1764 December 24 (indicated as 1765), Onuphrio Muralto, translated by William Marshal [pseudonyms; Horace Walpole], chapter II, in The Castle of Otranto, , London: Tho Lownds , →OCLC, page 70:But yeſter-morn, whoſe houſe was ſo great, ſo flouriſhing as Manfred's?
1826, [Mary Shelley], chapter III, in The Last Man. , volume II, London: Henry Colburn, , →OCLC, page 88:"That, Clara," I said, "is the gate, that the street which yestermorn your father rode up."
Noun
yestermorn (uncountable)
- (now rare, archaic) The morning of yesterday.
1817 (date written), [Jane Austen], chapter I, in Persuasion; published in Northanger Abbey: And Persuasion. , volume IV, London: John Murray, , 20 December 1817 (indicated as 1818), →OCLC, page 13:The sad accident at Lyme was soon the prevailing topic; and on comparing their latest accounts of the invalid, it appeared that each lady dated her intelligence from the same hour of yester morn, […]
1896, Rudyard Kipling, “[The Seven Seas.] The Song of the Banjo.”, in The Seven Seas, London: Methuen & Co. , →OCLC, page 84:By the wisdom of the centuries I speak— / To the tune of yestermorn I set the truth— / I, the joy of life unquestioned—I, the Greek— / I, the everlasting Wonder Song of Youth!
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