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overmorrow | err |

As an adverb overmorrow

is (obsolete) on the day after tomorrow.

As a noun overmorrow

is (obsolete) the day after tomorrow.

As a verb err is

to make a mistake.

overmorrow

English

Adverb

(-)
  • (obsolete) On the day after tomorrow.
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year = 1535 , first = Myles , last = Coverdale , authorlink = Myles Coverdale , title = The Byble, that is, the Holy Scrypture of the Olde and New Te?tament, faythfully tran?lated into Engly?he , section = Tobit 8:4 , page = D.iiij , url = http://www.bibles-online.net/1535/Apocrypha/3-Tobit/ , passage = Th? ?pake Tobias unto the virgin, and ?ayde: Up Sara, let us make oure prayer unto God to daye, tomorow, and ouermorow : for the?e thre nightes wil we reconcyle oure ?elues with God: and whan the thirde holy night is pa?t, we ?hall ioyne together in ye deutye of mariage. , transliteration = Then spake Tobias unto the virgin, and said: Up Sara, let us make our prayer unto God today, tomorrow, and overmorrow : for these three nights will we reconcile ourselves with God, and when the third holy night is past, we shall join together in the duty of marriage. }}
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year = 1925 , title = Parliamentary Debates: Official Report , volume = 188 , publisher = H.M. Stationery Off. , url = http://books.google.com/books?id=xswtAAAAYAAJ&q=overmorrow&dq=overmorrow , page = iv , passage = We can go not overmorrow , but on Thursday. }}
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year = 1969 , first = James , last = Klugman , title = History of the Communist Party of Great Britain: The General Strike, 1925-1927 , volume = 2 , quotee = Bucharin , publisher = Lawrence & Wishart , location = London , page = 73 , url = http://books.google.com/books?id=kwCJAAAAMAAJ&q=overmorrow&dq=overmorrow , passage = Sinowjeff and myself go to Caucasus overmorrow . }}

    Antonyms

    * (obsolete) ereyesterday

    Noun

    (-)
  • (obsolete) The day after tomorrow.
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year = 1898 , title = The first part of the tragedy of Faust , author = Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , authorlink = Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , publisher = Longmans, Green and Co. , page = 197 , pageurl = http://books.google.com/books?id=MTcTAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA197&dq=overmorrow , passage = My prescient limbs already borrow
    From rare Walpurgis-night a glow :
    It comes round on the overmorrow —
    Then why we are awake we know. }}

    References

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    Antonyms

    * (obsolete) ereyesterday

    See also

    * in three days * last night * nudiustertian (of the day before yesterday) * today * tomorrow * tomorrow night * tonight * yesterday

    err

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To make a mistake.
  • * '>citation
    • Artificial tests, then, can hardly err on the side of supplying too many opportunities for one bird to see another perform the act which is the model.
  • To sin.
  • (archaic) to stray.

    • Synonyms

    * See also

    Derived terms

    * err on the side of * err on the side of caution * erroneous * error * to err is human