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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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Etymology of 'Yet'

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"Yet" Quotes from Famous Books

... cliff, with a straight top, in the shape of a ledge of rock, which might pass for a ruined wall. I am afraid the reader will lose patience with my habit of constantly referring to the landscape of Italy, as if that were the measure of the beauty of every other. Yet I am still more afraid that I cannot apologize for it, and must leave it in its culpable nakedness. It is an idle habit; but the reader will long since have dis- covered that this was an idle journey, ...

— A Little Tour in France • Henry James

... yet a small boy Benjamin Simms died and the Simms slaves were auctioned to the highest bidders. "If'n you wants to know what unhappiness means," said Uncle John Rudd, "Jess'n you stand on the Slave Block and hear the Auctioneer's voice selling you away from the folks ...

— Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States - From Interviews with Former Slaves: Indiana Narratives • Works Projects Administration

... in a cloth, and had it carried by some slaves who accompanied him to his house. Till now he did not know why he had so much value for the butterfly; he was only led to purchase it by some impulse, and had not as yet given himself any reasons for it. For the first time, as he lay quietly in bed, he asked himself this question: "What shall I do with thee?" Then—"The other butterfly flew away over the flowers of my garden some days ago; this is dry and pierced, as if it had been dead for many years. ...

— Eastern Tales by Many Story Tellers • Various

... Scribonius, the astrologer, predicted great things of him when he was a mere child. "He will come in time," said the prophet, "to be even a king, but without the usual badge of royal dignity;" the rule of the Caesars being as yet unknown. When he was (203) making his first expedition, and leading his army through Macedonia into Syria, the altars which had been formerly consecrated at Philippi by the victorious legions, blazed suddenly ...

— The Lives Of The Twelve Caesars, Complete - To Which Are Added, His Lives Of The Grammarians, Rhetoricians, And Poets • C. Suetonius Tranquillus

... attached to Treaty Number One be considered as part of that treaty and of Treaty Number Two, and that the Indian Commissioner be instructed to carry out the promises therein contained in so far as they have not yet been carried out, and that the Commissioner be advised to inform the Indians that he has been authorized ...

— The Treaties of Canada with The Indians of Manitoba - and the North-West Territories • Alexander Morris

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