yesternight

Meanings

1. 1
   adv

   archaic: during the night immediately before today; last night

   The messenger arrived yesternight and departed before dawn.

2. 2
   noun

   archaic: the night immediately before the present day

   The terrors of yesternight seemed less real in the morning sun.

From Middle English yesternight and Old English gystran niht, a phrase combining giestran, 'yesterday,' + niht, 'night.' English later treated the phrase as a single adverb and noun. It survives chiefly in archaic, poetic, and historical writing.

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