"yestertime" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From yester- + time.",
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        "Time previous to the present; the past."
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          "present",
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      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "foretime"
        },
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          "word": "the past"
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  "synonyms": [
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      "word": "yestertide"
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  "word": "yestertime"
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  "etymology_text": "From yester- + time.",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adv",
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          "text": "And at last I came back to me, after sailing on surgeful waves; at this moment, between the Present and the Future, the Past and the Present, — forgetting what the world was, yestertime,—forgetting what I was, yestertime.",
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        "In times past, at a prior time; in the past."
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        {
          "word": "beforehand"
        },
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          "word": "formerly"
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  "synonyms": [
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      "word": "yestertide"
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  "word": "yestertime"
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      "word": "foretime"
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  "word": "yestertime"
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