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adverb

Yet adv.

In addition; further; besides; over and above; still. "A little longer; yet a little longer." "This furnishes us with yet one more reason why our savior, lays such a particular stress acts of mercy." "The rapine is made yet blacker by the pretense of piety and justice."

At the same time; by continuance from a former state; still. "Facts they had heard while they were yet heathens."

Up to the present time; thus far; hitherto; until now; and with the negative, not yet, not up to the present time; not as soon as now; as, Is it time to go? Not yet. See As yet, under As, conj. "Ne never yet no villainy ne said."

Before some future time; before the end; eventually; in time. "He 'll be hanged yet."

Even; used emphatically. "Men may not too rashly believe the confessions of witches, nor yet the evidence against them."

noun

Yet n. (Zool.) Any one of several species of large marine gastropods belonging to the genus Yetus, or Cymba; a boat shell.

conjunction

Yet conj. Nevertheless; notwithstanding; however. "Yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these."

Synonyms: See However.

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"Yet" Quotes from Famous Books

... are like me, you are fretting at the weather. We have not a leaf, yet, large enough to make an apron for a Miss Eve of two years old. Flowers and fruits, if they come at all this year, must meet together as they do in a Dutch picture; our lords and ladies, however, couple as if it were the real Gioventu dell' anno. ...

— Letters of Horace Walpole - Volume II • Horace Walpole

... big with potential damage to him. Some of his enemies might find out about it and make a scandal. Archulera might come around in an ugly mood and make trouble. The girl might run away and come to town again. And yet, now that he had a ...

— The Blood of the Conquerors • Harvey Fergusson

... not to the reader; egotistical talk may be pleasant enough, but, commit it to paper, the fault carries its own punishment. The recurrence of that everlasting first pronoun becomes a real stumbling-block to one at last. Yet there is no evading it, unless you cast your story into a curt, succinct diary; to carry this off effectively, requires a succession of incidents, more varied ...

— Border and Bastille • George A. Lawrence

... can do much in developing her faculties, as well as in sheltering her from being thrust into positions to which she would be unequal. You do so already. Though her weakness was apparent to me the first week I was in the house, yet, owing to your kind guardianship, I never perceived its extent till you were absent. I could not have imagined so much tact and vigilance could have been unconscious. Nay, dear child, it is no cause for tears. Her ...

— Hopes and Fears - scenes from the life of a spinster • Charlotte M. Yonge

... intimates she was called Maddy. He had an idea that he had heard Dalrymple in old times talk of her as Maddy Mullins, and just at this moment the idea was not pleasant to him; at any rate he could not call her Maddy as yet. "How am I to help you," he said, "unless ...

— The Last Chronicle of Barset • Anthony Trollope

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