Emily Dickinson Lexicon

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. – Addison.
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 Quintilian's declamations, if yet they are Quintilian's. – Baker.
5. It is prefixed to words denoting extension of time or continuance. A little longer; yet a little longer. – Dryden.
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. – Bacon.
8. Hitherto. You have yet done nothing; you have as yet done less than was expected.