erst
Americanadverb
adverb
-
long ago; formerly
-
at first
Etymology
Origin of erst
before 1000; Middle English erest, Old English ǣrest (cognate with Old High German ērist, German erst ), equivalent to ǣr ere + -est -est 1
Example Sentences
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To paraphrase the disgraced former vice chancellor: “Jetzt erst recht!”
From Slate • May 21, 2019
But stubborn Father Wimmer exploded in S�ddeutsch: "Jetzt geschieht's erst recht!"
From Time Magazine Archive
But Alba's brown dachshunds are much better ball-broken than the two famed black dachshunds of erst Kaiser Wilhelm II, which more than once appalled the Imperial Court at Berlin.
From Time Magazine Archive
But this seventh President�he was none other than Dr. Robert Ernest Vinson, erst of Texas.
From Time Magazine Archive
“Be’nt thick wold chappie our Wat that erst run lunatical?”
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
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