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Meanings of yore in English

Past.

Usage of yore in English
1
But not for the house in Hanley and the dressmaking of yore.
A Mummer's Wife
2
And truly it is foretold in the Scriptures of them of yore.17
The Koran (Al-Qur'an)
3
Not in yore vest pockets, but hid out in the brush somewheres.
Gunsight Pass: How Oil Came to the Cattle Country and Brought a ...
4
This wouldn't have been possible in the rose-tinted amateur era of yore.
The Irish Times
5
In days of motoring yore, a puncture was merely an annoying inconvenience.
The Irish Times
6
He no longer treated Bongrand in the wheedling, respectful manner of yore.
His Masterpiece
7
We converse in more ways and with more people than of yore.
A Tramp's Sketches
8
Both you and Hal have got that crook Meldrum in yore minds.
The Sheriff's Son
9
You meet up with this girl and get her in yore power.
The Sheriff's Son
10
The schoolmistress's grave was greener and her child rosier than of yore.
The Daughters of Danaus
11
Leave yore address and I'll send the gun by the buckboard driver.
A Man Four-Square
12
The Emperor had shown himself as of yore, and exhibited his mastery.
The Eagle of the Empire: A Story of Waterloo
13
He might take a crack at turning the screws on yore father.
Gunsight Pass: How Oil Came to the Cattle Country and Brought a ...
14
I wonder was you ever out an' out straightforward in yore life.
Gunsight Pass: How Oil Came to the Cattle Country and Brought a ...
15
Meanwhile, on the Box R ranch everything moved on as of yore.
Ben Blair / The Story of a Plainsman
16
Folks were born to wait on you, by yore way of it.
The Big-Town Round-Up
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United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Less common