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Synonyms for erewhile


Grammar : Adv
Spell : air-hwahyl, -wahyl
Phonetic Transcription : ɛərˈʰwaɪl, -ˈwaɪl

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Définition of erewhile

  • As in formerly : adv previously in time or order
Example sentences :
  • What, for example, be these mikerots she was illuding to erewhile?
  • Extract from : « Fruits of Culture » by Leo Tolstoy
  • Fate had fallen on his house, had marked it for destruction as erewhile that of Tantalus.
  • Extract from : « The Bride of the Nile, Complete » by Georg Ebers
  • Therefor he gave me the falcon on my hand which had erewhile been my lover's gift.
  • Extract from : « Margery [Gred], Complete » by Georg Ebers
  • In that you say not truth; for you erewhile have so misused my knight, that he may chance to die.
  • Extract from : « Jaufry the Knight and the Fair Brunissende » by Mary Lafon
  • In the centre of the erewhile camp they found the man they sought.
  • Extract from : « Haviland's Chum » by Bertram Mitford
  • For betwixt the oak-tree and the thorn Meseemeth erewhile was I born.
  • Extract from : « Poems by the Way » by William Morris
  • The romance-lore, both oral and written, which erewhile delighted the cottager, is growing out of date.
  • Extract from : « Notes and Queries, Number 139, June 26, 1852 » by Various
  • Yet she might about as well have stayed where she was, for the erewhile great whirling gold town was now as a city of the dead.
  • Extract from : « Aletta » by Bertram Mitford
  • It had been excavated by the washing of the stream, erewhile rapid, but now dried up.
  • Extract from : « Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 53, No. 331, May, 1843 » by Various
  • He, for his part, was well pleased to find in the young knight the companionship he had erewhile had in the pueri.
  • Extract from : « Margery [Gred], Complete » by Georg Ebers

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