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Testern vs Yestern - What's the difference?

testern | yestern |

As nouns the difference between testern and yestern

is that testern is (obsolete) a sixpence; a tester while yestern is yesterday.

As a verb testern

is (obsolete|transitive) to present with a tester.

As an adjective yestern is

(archaic|rare) of or pertaining to yesterday.

As an adverb yestern is

yesterday.

testern

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (obsolete) A sixpence; a tester.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To present with a tester.
  • * 1590' or '''1591 , William Shakespeare, ''The Two Gentlemen of Verona , Act 1 Scene 1 line 152
    • To testify to your bounty, I thank
    you, you have testern'd me; in requital whereof,
    henceforth carry your letters yourself.
    (Webster 1913)

    yestern

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (archaic, rare) Of or pertaining to yesterday.
  • * 1868 , John Conington (translator), The Iliad of Homer
    • Argos, I fear, will pay us soon again
    Her yestern debt
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1970 , year_published= , edition= , editor= , author=Trumbull Stickney , title=Dramatic Verses , chapter= citation , genre= , publisher=Ardent Media , isbn=9780839818724 , page=35 , passage=For men born of yesterday are yestern }}

    Adverb

    (-)
  • yesterday
  • :* {{quote-book
    • , year=1949 , year_published= , edition= , editor= , author=Lionel Trilling , title=Matthew Arnold , chapter= citation , genre= , publisher=Taylor & Francis , isbn=9780049280182 , page=169 , passage="F. Newman's book I saw yestern at our ouse," Arnold writes to Clough. "He seems to have written himself down an hass. }}

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • yesterday
  • :* {{quote-book
    • , year=1839 , year_published=2006 , edition=Digitized , editor=Montagu Montagu , author= Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller , title=The Song of the Bell, and other Poems , chapter=Knight Toggenburg citation , genre= , publisher= , isbn= , page=85 , passage=Yestern was the day of hail, … }}
  • :* {{quote-book
    • , year=1840 , year_published=2012 , edition=Digitized , editor= , author=Amelia Lane , title=The Fortress: An Historical Tale of the Fifteenth Century , chapter= citation , genre= , publisher= , isbn= , page=305 , passage=Yestern , who was there could compete with me in strength? }}
  • :* {{quote-book
    • , year=1977 , year_published=2009 , edition=Digitized , editor= , author=Bill Reed , title=Dogod , chapter= citation , genre= , publisher= , isbn=9780170051460 , page=76 , passage=For this day ought to promise not so much mulch as yesterday or all the other yesterns all back in a row of boredowndom. }}
  • :* {{quote-book
    • , year=2011 , year_published= , edition= , editor= , author=Glenn P. Wolfe , title=Mneme's Place: Book One , chapter= citation , genre=fiction , publisher=iUniverse , isbn=9781462017157 , page=22 , passage=Jestern, was Joyce's yestern . }}