aforetime
Americanadverb
adjective
adverb
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Origin of aforetime
Example Sentences
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Now it may be possible with some ingenuity of argument—Laud himself had aforetime made such an attempt—to regard the Battle of the Churches as a contest of the reason; in practice its provincialism is due to the fact that it was concerned, not with the truth, but with what men had held to be the truth.
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Upon this very wall where now thou standest sorely troubled, stood aforetime King Hezekiah.
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If, however, the clergy were to give heed to Mr. Ruskin's words, and at once proceed to the indiscriminate excommunication of usurers, would they not be initiating a social revolution, altogether176 different from that orderly upgrowth of a better state of things which has commended itself aforetime to Mr. Ruskin himself?
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In each minute of your life the aforetime future is present born, and you need dry and keen eyes to give it and yourself a safe and happy deliverance.
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He is saying to himself, “Nay, marry, an I wanted a cup o’ ale aforetime I was ever served.
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