Ye - YE, pron. The nominative plural of the second person, of which thou is the singular. But the two words have no radical connection. Ye is now used only in the sacred and solemn style. In common discourse and writing, you is exclusively used. But ye are washed, but ye are sanctified. 1 Cor 6.
Yea - YEA, adv. Ya. 1. Yes; a word that expresses affirmation or assent. Will you go? Yea. It sometimes introduces a subject, with the sense of indeed, verily, truly, it is so. Yea, hath God said, ye shall not eat of every tree in the garden? Gen 3. Let your communication be yea, yea; nay, nay. Mat 5. 2. It sometimes enforces the sense of something preceding; not only so, but more. Therein I do rejoice; yea, and will rejoice. Phil 1. 3. In Scripture, it is used to denote certainty, consistency, harmony, and stability. All the promises of God in him are yea, and in him are amen. 2 Cor 1. [In this use, the word may be considered a noun.] Yea is used only in the sacred and solemn style. [See Yes.]
Yearn - YEARN, YERN, v.i. [G. The sense is to strain, or stretch forward. We have earnest from the same root.] 1. To be strained; to be pained or distressed; to suffer. Falstaff, he is dead, and we must yearn therefore. 2. Usually, to long; to feel an earnest desire; that is literally, to have a desire or inclination stretching towards the object or end. 1 Ki 3. Joseph made haste, for his bowels did yearn upon his brother. Gen 43. Your mothers heart yearns toward you. --Anticlus, unable to control, spoke loud the language of his yearning soul. YEARN, YERN, v.t. To pain; to grieve; to vex. She laments for it, that it would yearn your heart to see it. It yearns me not if men my garments wear.
Yesterday - YESTERDAY, n. [See Yester.] 1. The day last past; the day next before the present. All our yesterdays have lighted fools the way to dusty death. We are but of yesterday, and know nothing. Job 8. 2. Yesterday is used generally without a preposition; as, I went to town yesterday. Yesterday we received letters from our friends. In this ease, a preposition is understood; as on yesterday, or during yesterday. The word may be considered as adverbially used.
Yet - YET, conj. [Gr.] Nevertheless; notwithstanding; however. I come to you in the spirit of peace; yet you will not receive me. Yet I say unto you, the Solomon in all his glory, was not arrayed like one of these. Mat 6. YET, adv. 1. Beside; over and above. There is one reason yet further to be alledged. 2. Still; the state remaining the same. They attest facts they had heard while they were yet heathens. 3. At this time; so soon. Is it time to go? Not yet. 4. At least; at all. A man that would form a comparison between Quintilians declamations, if yet they are Quintilians-- 5. It is prefixed to words denoting extension of time or continuance. A little longer; yet a little longer. 6. Still; in a new degree. The crime becomes yet blacker by the pretense of piety. 7. Even; after all; a kind of emphatical addition to a negative. Men may not too rashly believe the confessions of witches, nor yet the evidence against them. 8. Hitherto. You have yet done nothing; you have as yet done less than was expected. Yeven, for given, is not in use.
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