yoretime

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

yore +‎ time

Noun[edit]

yoretime (uncountable)

  1. Time long past; long ago.
    • 1895, The New Ireland Review, volume 3, page 238:
      History is no longer as of yoretime a mere chronicle of the lives and loves of kings; of the rise and wreck of dynasties; or of the pomp and circumstance of war.