adv. (sb.) Chiefly poet. [f. YESTER- + EVE sb.1] = YESTER-EVENING.

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1603.  B. Jonson, Entertainm. at Althrope, Wks. (1616), 873. In hope that you would come here Yester-eue the lady Summer, Shee inuited to a banquet.

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1794.  Mrs. Radcliffe, Myst. Udolpho, i. Who … jealous is of me, That yester-eve I lighted them, along the dewy green.

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a. 1850.  Rossetti, Dante & Circle, II. (1874), 271. I marked thee here all yester-eve Lurking about my home.

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1850.  Hawthorne, Scarlet Let., xiv. (1883), 204. No longer ago than yester-eve.

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1859.  Tennyson, Marr. Geraint, 702. And yester-eve I would not tell you of it, But kept it for a sweet surprise at morn.

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1864.  W. C. Bryant, Italy, 39. Slaves but yester-eve were they—Freemen with the dawning day.

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1898.  T. Hardy, The Dance at the Phoenix, 131.

        When yestereve she’d forthward crept,
And as unwitting, still he slept
  Who did in her confide.

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