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What does "yet" mean?

Yet: In addition; further; besides; over and above; still. "A little longer; yet a little longer." Dryden. This furnishes us with yet one more reason why our savior, lays such a particular stress acts of mercy. Atterbury. The rapine is made yet blacker by the pretense of piety and justice. L'Estrange.

Additional senses

  1. 2.At the same time; by continuance from a former state; still. Facts they had heard while they were yet heathens. Addison.
  2. 3.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. Chaucer.
  3. 4.Before some future time; before the end; eventually; in time. "He 'll be hanged yet." Shak.
  4. 5.Even; -- used emphatically. Men may not too rashly believe the confessions of witches, nor yet the evidence against them. Bacon.
  5. 6.Nevertheless; notwithstanding; however. Yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. Matt. vi.

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