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yestermorrow en · ADV

Etymology

Blend of yesterday + tomorrow.

Meanings

1. (not-comparable, obsolete) In the recent past; the other day.
   • “Father,” she faltered, in a low, shyvoice, “I heard you preach here yestermorrow.” 1877, ES Holt, For the Master's Sake: A Story of the Days of Queen Mary:
   • Didst not see, she sent up sober sauce with the urchin yestermorrow ? " 1885, Emily Sarah Holt, The lord mayor, page 332:

yestermorrow en · NOUN

Etymology

Blend of yesterday + tomorrow.

Meanings

1. A day in the sequence of days from past to future, emphasizing the connection between past and future events.
   • This sets up an important guide in studying management history and one which could serve as a real beacon—"yestermorrow" —the idea of yesterday, today and tomorrow, a continuum of behavior. 1973 August, RJ Whiting, “Management History: Goals and Rationale”, in Academy of Management Proceedings:
   • I'll just put it back when I get home,” he thought, not at all suspecting it might be many long yestermorrows again before that might be so. 2014, Doug Cariou, Once Upon an Island, →ISBN:
   • People are the ultimate core resource required to bridge from past success to future success — or "yestermorrow." 1992, RJ Bruno, “The evolution to market-driven quality”, in Journal of Business Strategy, volume 13, number 5:
   • If we fail to take into consideration the works of these interpreters of “yestermorrow,” we will be failing to monitor the pulse of contemporary thought and feeling. 1963 October, Harley W. Parker, “The museum as a communication system”, in Curator: The Museum Journal, volume 6, number 4:
2. A time outside of time; A time that cannot be fit into the normal timeline, possibly due to relativistic effects.
   • Susan Platz had always had the most distinctive voice - smoky and raspy one minute like her role in Who's That Bitch?, and then sometimes it would sound tender, like in The Zone of Eternal Yestermorrows, then it might sound old, then young, like in The Space-time Straddler. 2013, Oliver Neale, Electronic Sue, →ISBN, page 241:
   • Conceived in that journey, I was born in space. A child so birthed in desolations, homeless between yestermorrow and noon's midnight must have a proper name. 1970, Ray Bradbury, Reflections from the Man Who Landed on the Moon in 1929:
   • sombre lustre augers yestermorrows nowwhens in some other tense - future present past perfect 1997, Carol Lee Sanchez, From Spirit to Matter: New and Selected Poems, 1969-1996, page 106:

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