yestermorrow

English

Etymology

Blend of yesterday +‎ tomorrow

Noun

yestermorrow (plural yestermorrows)

1. A day in the sequence of days from past to future, emphasizing the connection between past and future events.
   • 1963 October, Harley W. Parker, “The museum as a communication system”, in Curator: The Museum Journal, volume 6, number 4:

     If we fail to take into consideration the works of these interpreters of “yestermorrow,” we will be failing to monitor the pulse of contemporary thought and feeling.

   • 1973 August, RJ Whiting, “Management History: Goals and Rationale”, in Academy of Management Proceedings:

     This sets up an important guide in studying management history and one which could serve as a real beacon—"yestermorrow" —the idea of yesterday, today and tomorrow, a continuum of behavior.

   • 1992, RJ Bruno, “The evolution to market-driven quality”, in Journal of Business Strategy, volume 13, number 5:

     People are the ultimate core resource required to bridge from past success to future success — or "yestermorrow."

   • 2014, Doug Cariou, Once Upon an Island, →ISBN:

     I'll just put it back when I get home,” he thought, not at all suspecting it might be many long yestermorrows again before that might be so.

2. A time outside of time; A time that cannot be fit into the normal timeline, possibly due to relativistic effects.
   • 1970, Ray Bradbury, Reflections from the Man Who Landed on the Moon in 1929:

     Conceived in that journey, I was born in space. A child so birthed in desolations, homeless between yestermorrow and noon's midnight must have a proper name.

   • 1997, Carol Lee Sanchez, From Spirit to Matter: New and Selected Poems, 1969-1996, page 106:

     sombre lustre augers yestermorrows nowwhens in some other tense - future present past perfect

   • 2013, Oliver Neale, Electronic Sue, →ISBN, page 241:

     Susan Platz had always had the most distinctive voice - smoky and raspy one minute like her role in Who's That Bitch?, and then sometimes it would sound tender, like in The Zone of Eternal Yestermorrows, then it might sound old, then young, like in The Space-time Straddler.

Adverb

yestermorrow (not comparable)

1. (obsolete) In the recent past; the other day.
   • 1877, ES Holt, For the Master's Sake: A Story of the Days of Queen Mary:

     “Father,” she faltered, in a low, shyvoice, “I heard you preach here yestermorrow.”

   • 1885, Emily Sarah Holt, The lord mayor, page 332:

     Didst not see, she sent up sober sauce with the urchin yestermorrow ? "