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English
Etymology
Perhaps from yester + -en. Compare also Old English ġiestran (“yesterday”).
Adjective
yestern (not comparable)
- (archaic, rare) Of or pertaining to yesterday.
1868, John Conington, transl., The Iliad of Homer:Argos, I fear, will pay us soon again
Her yestern debt […]
1970, Trumbull Stickney, Dramatic Verses, Ardent Media, →ISBN, page 35:For men born of yesterday are yestern
Adverb
yestern (not comparable)
- (archaic) Yesterday.
1949, Lionel Trilling, Matthew Arnold, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN, 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.
Noun
yestern (plural yesterns)
- (archaic) Yesterday.
1839, Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller, “Knight Toggenburg”, in Montagu Montagu, editor, The Song of the Bell, and other Poems, Digitized edition, published 2006, page 85:Yestern was the day of hail, […]
1840, Amelia Lane, The Fortress: An Historical Tale of the Fifteenth Century, Digitized edition, published 2012, page 305:Yestern, who was there could compete with me in strength?
1977, Bill Reed, Dogod, Digitized edition, published 2009, →ISBN, 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 (fiction), iUniverse, →ISBN, page 22:Jestern, was Joyce's yestern.
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