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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Yore \Yore\ (y[=o]r), adv. [OE. [yogh]ore, yare, [yogh]are, AS.
ge['a]ra;akin to ge['a]r a year, E. year. [root]204. See
{Year}.]
In time long past; in old time; long since. [Obs. or Poetic]
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As it hath been of olde times yore. --Chaucer.
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Which though he hath polluted oft and yore,
Yet I to them for judgment just do fly. --Spenser.
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{Of yore}, of old time; long ago; as, in times or days of
yore. "But Satan now is wiser than of yore." --Pope.
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Where Abraham fed his flock of yore. --Keble.
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