Dictionary entry

Yore

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Yore (yōr), adv. [OE. ”ore, yare, ”are, AS. geára;akin to geár a year, E. year. √204. See Year.] In time long past; in old time; long since.

As it hath been of olde times yore. Chaucer.

Which though he hath polluted oft and yore,

Yet I to them for judgment just do fly. Spenser.

Of yore, of old time; long ago; as, in times or days of yore. “But Satan now is wiser than of yore.” Pope.

Where Abraham fed his flock of yore. Keble.