Yore \Yore\ (y[=o]r), adv. [OE. [yogh]ore, yare, [yogh]are, AS. ge['a]ra;akin to ge['a]r a year, E. year. [root]204. See Year.]

In time long past; in old time; long since. [Obs. or Poetic]

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.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)