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bygone

[bahy-gawn, -gon]

Origin

adjective

past; gone by; earlier; former: The faded photograph brought memories of bygone days.

noun

Usually, bygones. that which is past: Let's not talk of bygones.

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Idiom

let bygones be bygones, to decide to forget past disagreements; become reconciled: Let's let bygones be bygones and be friends again.

Origin:
1375–1425; late Middle English (north) by-gane; see gone, by¹

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bygone (ˈbaɪˌɡɒn)

—*adj*
1.	(usually prenominal) past; former

—n
2.	(often plural) a past occurrence
3.	(often plural) an artefact, implement, etc, of former domestic or industrial use, now often collected for interest
4.	let bygones be bygones to agree to forget past quarrels

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Word Origin & History

bygone

early 15c., from by + gone. Cf. similar construction of aforesaid.

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"Near by is an interesting ruin—the meagre remains of an ancient heathen temple—a place where human sacrifices were offered up in those old bygone days when the simple child of nature, yielding momentarily to sin when sorely tempted, acknowledged his error when calm reflection had shown it to him, and came forward with noble frankness and offered up his grandmother as an atoning sacrifice—in those old days when the luckless sinner could keep on cleansing his conscience and achieving periodical happiness as long as his relations held out."

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