yestermorn

From yester- +‎ morn.

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):

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

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!

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