Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Time long past.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
yare . - In time past; long ago; in old time: now used only in the phrase of yore—that is, of old time; long ago.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb Obs. or Poetic In time long past; in old time; long since.
- adverb of old time; long ago; as, in times or days
of yore .
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- noun poetic
time longpast - noun Common misspelling of
your . - noun Common misspelling of
you're .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun time long past
Etymologies
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Examples
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The weak man, as of yore, is the servant, the doer of things at the master's call.
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I never got the impression that he was trying to say that the Progressivism of yore is similar to EITHER liberalism or modern progressivism.
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The Eugenia brand crema comes in a little bottle that looks almost like the cream bottles of yore from the USA.
half and half cream 2007
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Downtown Morelia, moribund by night in days of yore, is seeing a revitalization by some new entrants.
The colonial cities 1999
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Downtown Morelia, moribund by night in days of yore, is seeing a revitalization by some new entrants.
The colonial cities 1999
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"Let me call yore attention to the trained coyotes, ladies an 'gents," remarked Johnny in a deep, solemn voice.
Bar-20 Days Clarence Edward Mulford 1919
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The weak man, as of yore, is the servant, the doer of things at the master's call.
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"Well, I'm domd – axin yore pardin fur takkin th 'liberty; it's a habit: I've gotten – but I be an' no mistake."
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I suppose you do not no my name yore lady remebers my name I lived in Middlebrook with her Brothers if you can consistantly send us a small pacage of tobacco we will be very thankful Direct to James Steel & John H. Plunkett comp E 5 Regment of Virginia infantry
Augusta County: John H. Plunkett to John Miller, July 7, 1864 John H. Plunkett 1864
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The sheer length, scale and nature of the plum jobs picked up by Brown’s colleagues demonstrates beyond a peradventure that the ‘revolving-door’ of which he spoke so piously in days of yore is now turning at a far faster rate and far more often than it ever did under the Tories.
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