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Webster 1913 Edition

(yōr)

adv.

[OE.

ȝore

yare

ȝare

, AS.

geára

;akin to

geár

a year, E.

year

. √204. See

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.

adv.

[It probably signifies past, gone, from the root of year.] Long.

Of yore, of old time; long ago; as in times or days of yore.

But Satan now is wiser than of yore.