yesternight

English

Etymology

From Middle English yesternyght, yisternight, from Old English ġiestranniht (“yesternight”), equivalent to yester- +‎ night.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈjɛstə(ɹ)naɪt/

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Adverb

yesternight (not comparable)

1. (archaic) Last night.
   • c. 1598, William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing, act IV, scene 1:

     What man was he talk'd with you yesternight
     Out at your window betwixt twelve and one?

   • 1611, King James Version of the Bible‎, Genesis 31:29:

     It is in the power of my hand to do you hurt: but the God of your father spake unto me yesternight, saying, Take thou heed that thou speak not to Jacob either good or bad.

   • 1820, Walter Scott, chapter 6, in Ivanhoe‎:

     […] when the Templar crossed the hall yesternight, he spoke to his Mussulman slaves in the Saracen language, which I well understand, and charged them this morning to watch the journey of the Jew […]

   • 1847, Emily Brontë, chapter 29, in Wuthering Heights‎:

     […] she has disturbed me, night and day, through eighteen years—incessantly—remorselessly—till yesternight; and yesternight I was tranquil.

   • 1885, Richard F. Burton, chapter XXII, in The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, volume I, The Burton Club, page 228:

     I came here yesternight for a call of nature and to do what none can do for me[.]

Synonyms

• see list in yestereve

Related terms

• yesterday
• yesteryear

Noun

yesternight (plural yesternights)

1. (archaic) A preceding night.