somewise
Americanadverb
adverb
Etymology
Origin of somewise
late Middle English word dating back to 1400–50; see origin at some, wise 2
Example Sentences
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And I to learn the hour alway, by a little shining of the Diskos upon my time-dial, which I have told did be somewise as the watch of this our present Age.
From The Night Land by Hodgson, William Hope
And we all to think we know, but somewise to be just a-lack when that it doth come to the proof.
From The Night Land by Hodgson, William Hope
And I to think that Country did be somewise as the Olden Time renewed; but truly we to look upon early things with new eyes.
From The Night Land by Hodgson, William Hope
She had only thought that he was in somewise her property, and would be so till the end of both their lives.
From Vixen, Volume I. by Braddon, M. E. (Mary Elizabeth)
The earnestness and fervour seemed to have gone out of them in somewise since she had come to womanhood.
From London Pride Or When the World Was Younger by Braddon, M. E. (Mary Elizabeth)
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