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yore |
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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