| 单词 | long yore |
| 释义 | > as lemmaslong yore a. in adv. use: Of old, in time long past, anciently, formerly. Also †of yore ago(ne), †long yore: long ago. ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > the past > [adverb] > long ago yorec900 for longOE langer1303 long agoc1350 far1362 for yorea1375 of yore ago(ne)a1375 long time1376 of olda1393 anciently1502 langsyne?a1513 oldlya1513 in old season1582 old1609 antiquely1652 then-a-days1688 (the) year one1754 way back1870 in yore1876 way back when1921 a1375 Joseph Arim. l. 317 Werdes of Ebreu weren I-writen of ȝore. c1385 G. Chaucer Legend Good Women Prol. 13 For that he say it nat of ȝore a-go. 1430–40 J. Lydgate tr. Bochas Fall of Princes (1554) ix. xiv. 202 b/2 She was the same that of yore agon, Unworthelye sate in Peters place. 1579 E. Spenser Shepheardes Cal. July 116 The sayncts Which han be dead of yore [Gloss long agoe]. 1609 W. Shakespeare Sonnets lxviii. sig. E3 To shew faulse Art what beauty was of yore . View more context for this quotation 1645 J. Milton Il Penseroso in Poems 38 Thee bright-hair'd Vesta long of yore, To solitary Saturn bore. 1785 W. Cowper Task ii. 591 A form, not now gymnastic as of yore. 1819 W. Scott Ivanhoe I. i. 1 Here haunted of yore the fabulous Dragon of Wantley. 1862 C. Kingsley Lett. (1877) I. 477 I have defended the right of combination among the work~men, in hope that they would become wiser than of yore. 1867 ‘Ouida’ Cecil Castlemaine's Gage 19 Proud Cecil Castlemaine was yet prouder than of yore. < as lemmas |
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