erewhile
Americanadverb
adverb
Etymology
Origin of erewhile
Middle English word dating back to 1250–1300; see origin at ere, while
Example Sentences
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On the Monday of St. John they elected two burgomasters, namely, Joachim Pr�tze, the erewhile town clerk, an honest and sensible man, and Johannes Klocke, the actual town clerk and syndicus.
From Bartholomew Sastrow Being the Memoirs of a German Burgomaster by Sastrow, Bartholomew
But she was deaf to these erewhile potent influences.
From A Mere Chance, Vol. 1 of 3 A Novel by Cambridge, Ada
The word “señorita” betrayed a trace of the Spaniards—a remnant of those relations that had erewhile existed between the Seminole Indians and the Iberian race.
From Osceola the Seminole The Red Fawn of the Flower Land by Reid, Mayne
The source of all these erewhile unprinted Poems is Vol.
From The Complete Works of Richard Crashaw, Volume I (of 2) by Crashaw, Richard
Mr. Matthew Arnold produced, with others, this excellent epigraph: ‘Though the Muse be gone away, Though she move not earth to-day, Souls erewhile who caught her word, Ah! still harp on what they heard.’
From By-ways in Book-land Short Essays on Literary Subjects by Adams, William Davenport
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