Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The morn or morning before the present; the morning last past.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The morning of yesterday.
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- noun obsolete Yesterday
morning .
Etymologies
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Examples
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When she'd fled her parent's house yestermorn, there had been a small, fervent hope that she would encounter her own bit of excitement.
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“That, Clara,” I said, “is the gate, that the street which yestermorn your father rode up.”
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It was in vain that I sought to turn my thoughts to other things; in vain that I cast them back upon my recent condition and my recent resolves; in vain that I remembered the penitence of yestermorn, the confession at Fra Gervasio's knee, and the strong resolve to do penance and make amends by the purity of all my after-life.
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On yestermorn my wife, my daughter and little boy, committed to the charge of old Gaston, had driven into Rouen to spend the day.
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But yestermorn we found that we had sprung a plank or two just above the waterline, as we were in a bad berth for shelter.
A Prince of Cornwall A Story of Glastonbury and the West in the Days of Ina of Wessex
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When I entered the ball, behold, I saw the same thing, albeit I was now awake, as I had seen yestermorn in my half-sleep.
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When I entered the ball, behold, I saw the same thing, albeit I was now awake, as I had seen yestermorn in my half-sleep.
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I was now awake, as I had seen yestermorn in my half-sleep.
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But he had scarce been at home a minute or two when there came one riding to the door, a young man scarlet-clad and gay, and his horse was dight with the goodliest of saddles and bridles, and the bit of silver, but for all that, both Osberne and Stephen, who was standing in the door, knew the horse for their own nag, on whom Waywearer had ridden off the yestermorn.
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"The Act regarding them was yestermorn sceptred by the King's Grace."
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