See yore on Wiktionary
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],
"word": "aus uralten Zeiten"
},
{
"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"roman": "qédem",
"sense": "time long past",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "קֶדֶם"
},
{
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "time long past",
"word": "fyrir"
},
{
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "time long past",
"word": "langa"
},
{
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "time long past",
"word": "löngu"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "arishi hi",
"sense": "time long past",
"word": "在りし日"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "mukashi",
"sense": "time long past",
"word": "昔"
},
{
"code": "lad",
"lang": "Ladino",
"sense": "time long past",
"word": "antanyada"
},
{
"code": "no",
"lang": "Norwegian",
"sense": "time long past",
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"masculine",
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],
"word": "gamle dager"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "time long past",
"word": "antanho"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "time long past",
"word": "antano"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "dávnije vremená",
"sense": "time long past",
"tags": [
"plural"
],
"word": "да́вние времена́"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "bylóje",
"sense": "time long past",
"tags": [
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],
"word": "было́е"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "time long past",
"word": "antaño"
}
],
"word": "yore"
}
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"ref": "1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 26:",
"text": "Which though he hath polluted oft and yore, / Yet I to them for iudgement iust do fly",
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"In time long past; long ago."
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"(obsolete) In time long past; long ago."
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"for a long time"
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"(with past participle) for a long time"
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