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erewhile

[ air-hwahyl, -wahyl ]

adverb

Archaic.
  1. a while before; formerly.


erewhile

/ ɛəˈ·É²¹Éª±ô /

adverb

  1. archaic.
    a short time ago; a little while before
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of erewhile1

Middle English word dating back to 1250–1300; ere, while
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I did not now watch the actors; I no longer waited with interest for the curtain to rise; my attention was absorbed by the spectators; my eyes, erewhile fixed on the arch, were now irresistibly attracted to the semicircle of chairs.

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It is thrilling, whether at early dawn, or what time the darkening wing of Night begins to flap, to hear a shrill cry of "Hear, hear!" to see a well-known figure cleaving the astonished air, and to behold Joseph G-ll-s, erewhile upright on the eastern turret, prone on that which lifts its head nearer the setting sun.

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There has been said to him by the reason within him the word that Virgil erewhile addressed to Dante: “Libero, dritto, e sano è il tuo arbitrio E fallo fora non fare a suo cenno; Per ch' io te sopra te corono e mitrio.â€

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The Queen had not ascended her throne when the erewhile opponents of the Measure confessed that these anticipations were already fulfilled.

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Each contemplated the other with searching glance; both endeavoured to develop again out of the ruins of time those features which erewhile they had known and loved in one another.

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