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yester-
in comb. or as prefix = immediately preceding the present, last, in yestereve, etc., after yesterday, yesternight; e.g. yester-afternoon, yester-age, yester-noon, yester-tempest, yester-week. See also yester-year.
1806Coleridge Let. to D. Stuart 18 Aug., I..have found myself so unusually better ever since I leaped on land *yester-afternoon.
1870Swinburne Ess. & Stud. (1875) 97 A poet of the first order..puts the life-blood of an equal interest into Hebrew forms or Greek, mediæval or modern, yesterday or *yesterage.
1855Hyde Clarke Dict., *Yester-noon. 1872M. Collins in Frances Collins M.C., Lett. etc., (1877) I. 106, I saw some swallows yesternoon at the parsonage.
1888G. M. Hopkins Poems (1967) 105 Delightfully the bright wind boisterous ropes, wrestles, beats earth bare Of *yestertempest's creases.
1839Mrs. Browning Rom. Page xii, The lady Abbess dead before it, And the chanting nuns whom *yester-week Her voice did charge and bless. |