beforetime
Americanadverb
adverb
Etymology
Origin of beforetime
First recorded in 1250–1300, beforetime is from Middle English bifor time. See before, time
Example Sentences
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Is this the beforetime for Johns, a memory of a time before he decided to be an artist, before he turned inward and began to live almost entirely in his head?
From Washington Post ● Sep. 29, 2021
The words now and beforetime denote too long an interval to allow room for such a supposition.
From The Bible: what it is by Charles Bradlaugh
Ambition, in desiring to be advanced to equal grace and favour, as you have been beforetime; that grace you had then, you got not in a day or year.
From State Trials, Political and Social Volume 1 (of 2) by Sir Harry Lushington Stephen
The heaven beyond on which he muses as he gazes, the home for which he longs, baptizes him with its light beforetime.
From Continental Monthly , Vol. 5, No. 6, June, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various
An iron lamp hung from the ceiling in what seemed to have been one of the cellars of the old house, though she was unaware beforetime of such a dangerous proximity.
From Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2 by John Roby
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