yesternight

«yesternight» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: last night — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

kind

archaic word

modern equivalent

last night

part of speech

noun; adverb

meaning for a pupil

The night before today; yesterday evening. tree →

how it differs from today

No longer used; today we say "last night".

examples

• God hath seen mine affliction and the labour of my hands, and gave judgment yesternight.' (Torah GEN.31.42, JPS 1917) tree →
• And it came to pass on the morrow, that the first-born said unto the younger: 'Behold, I lay yesternight with my father. (Torah GEN.19.34, JPS 1917) tree →
• It is in the power of my hand to do you hurt; but the God of your father spoke unto me yesternight, saying: Take heed to thyself that thou speak not to Jacob either good or bad. (Torah GEN.31.29, JPS 1917) tree →

tests

manual 10.4; corpora 3 (Torah 3, tales 0, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 0.3 (Torah alone 7.0); Wiktionary archaic (first sense)

In the corpora

• God hath seen mine affliction and the labour of my hands, and gave judgment yesternight.'

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «yesternight» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.