1
: yes
—used in oral voting
2
: more than this : not only so but
—used to introduce a more explicit or emphatic phrase
yet the impression, yea the evidence, is inescapable—J. G. Harrison
3
informal
: to this extent or degree
The hole was yea [=this] big
yea high
yea tall
1
2
a
: an affirmative vote
b
: a person casting a yea vote
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