yore

Noun

WordNet 3.0

Noun (1)

  1. time long past
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Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

Yore \Yore\ (y[=o]r), adv. [OE. [yogh]ore, yare, [yogh]are, AS. ge['a]ra;akin to ge['a]r a year, E. year. [root]204. See Year.] In time long past; in old time; long since. [Obs. or Poetic] [1913 Webster]

As it hath been of olde times yore. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]

Which though he hath polluted oft and yore, Yet I to them for judgment just do fly. --Spenser. [1913 Webster]

Of yore, of old time; long ago; as, in times or days of yore. "But Satan now is wiser than of yore." --Pope. [1913 Webster]

Where Abraham fed his flock of yore.— Keble.[1913 Webster]
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