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  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  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] 
 
  As  it  hath  been  of  olde  times  yore.  --Chaucer. 
 
  Which  though  he  hath  polluted  oft  and  yore,  Yet  I  to 
  them  for  judgment  just  do  fly.  --Spenser. 
 
  {Of  yore},  of  old  time;  long  ago;  as  in  times  or  days  of 
  yore.  ``But  Satan  now  is  wiser  than  of  yore.''  --Pope. 
 
  Where  Abraham  fed  his  flock  of  yore.  --Keble. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  yore 
  n  :  the  time  that  has  elapsed;  "forget  the  past"  [syn:  {past},  {past 
  times},  {yesteryear}]  [ant:  {future}] 




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