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Dec 28, 2021
This week’s themeThere’s a word for it This week’s words agathism yesternight quaestuary habitus eschatology Follow us on 
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with Anu Gargyesternight
PRONUNCIATION:
(YES-tuhr-nyt)
MEANING:
noun: Last night. adverb: During last night. ETYMOLOGY:
From Old English giestran/gierstan (a time one period prior to the
present period) + niht (night). Earliest documented use: c. 450. A
related word is yestreen (yesterday evening).
USAGE:
“It didn’t help that she’d searched for him so long yesternight, she’d
been forced to dig under the roots of a windblown tree at dayrise.” Charles Coleman Finlay; A Democracy of Trolls; Fantasy & Science Fiction (Hoboken, New Jersey); Oct/Nov 2002. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
In the case of good books, the point is not how many of them you can get
through, but rather how many can get through to you. -Mortimer J. Adler,
philosopher, educator, and author (28 Dec 1902-2001)
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