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agone

American  
[uh-gawn, uh-gon] / əˈgɔn, əˈgɒn /

adverb

Archaic.
  1. an archaic variant of ago.


agone British  
/ əˈɡɒn /

adverb

  1. an archaic word for ago

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I am sure you were of another mind no longer agone than yesterday.

From Witch, Warlock, and Magician Historical Sketches of Magic and Witchcraft in England and Scotland by W. H. Davenport (William Henry Davenport) Adams

When my Maggie were lyin' badly four years agone, and us thought she was goin' to die, she asked me to go and fetch her pastor—dash;that's what she called him.

From A Safety Match by Ian Hay

To-day Columbia's air doth seem Much purer than in days agone; And now her mighty heart, I deem, Hath lighter grown by marching on.

From The Freedmen's Book by Lydia Maria Francis Child

O, moonlight deep and tender, A year and more agone, Your mist of golden splendor Round my betrothal shone!

From Poems of James Russell Lowell With biographical sketch by Nathan Haskell Dole by James Russell Lowell

May it please the prince my lord to heed my words, for I speak those that fell an hour agone from the lips of Amraphel of Bel.

From Istar of Babylon A Phantasy by Margaret Horton Potter

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