yestermornとは 意味・読み方・使い方

副詞

yestermorn (not comparable)

1. (now rare, archaic) During the morning of yesterday; yesterday morning. [from 18th c.]
   • 1764 December 24 (indicated as 1765), Onuphrio Muralto, translated by William Marshal [pseudonyms; Horace Walpole], chapter II, in The Castle of Otranto, […], London: […] Tho[mas] Lownds […], →OCLC, page 70:

     But yeſter-morn, whoſe houſe was ſo great, ſo flouriſhing as Manfred's?

   • 1826, [Mary Shelley], chapter III, in The Last Man. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 88:

     "That, Clara," I said, "is the gate, that the street which yestermorn your father rode up."

   • 2015, Robert Eggers, The Witch (motion picture), spoken by William (Ralph Ineson), note that while the film was released in 2015, the story is set in the 1630s and therefore the dialogue was written reflect the time period:

     Kate, I must make a confession... I, yestermorn, I took Caleb to The Wood.

名詞

yestermorn (uncountable)

1. (now rare, archaic) The morning of yesterday. [from 18th c.]
   • 1817 (date written), [Jane Austen], chapter I, in Persuasion; published in Northanger Abbey: And Persuasion. […], volume IV, London: John Murray, […], 20 December 1817 (indicated as 1818), →OCLC, page 13:

     The sad accident at Lyme was soon the prevailing topic; and on comparing their latest accounts of the invalid, it appeared that each lady dated her intelligence from the same hour of yester morn, […]

   • 1896, Rudyard Kipling, “[The Seven Seas.] The Song of the Banjo.”, in The Seven Seas, London: Methuen & Co. […], →OCLC, page 84:

     By the wisdom of the centuries I speak— / To the tune of yestermorn I set the truth— / I, the joy of life unquestioned—I, the Greek— / I, the everlasting Wonder Song of Youth!

同意語

• yestermorning