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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/Y/yesternight/#m1)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/Y/yesternight/#x1)
- 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/Y/yesternight/#x2)
- 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/Y/yesternight/#x3)

### 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.'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.984/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «yesternight» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/Y/yesternight/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.