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aforetime

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Definitions

  1. In time past; in a former time; formerly.

Word origin

From Middle English a fore tyme, afore tyme, aforetyme, afortym, a-for-tyme, afortymez; equivalent to afore- + time.

Used in a sentence

  • She and the Tertium Quid enjoyed each other's society among the graves of men and women whom they had known and danced with aforetime.
  • To him, despite the housekeeper, there was an impropriety in Ursula, the elderly ex-parson, and Andrew living under the one roof - a matter that, for all his aforetime vigilance, had escaped Mr. Civil.
  • In the modern kitchen waste is guarded against as strenuously as ever in the aforetimes; but the remnants are used with knowledge—with a scientific attention to flavor and to the nature of the ingredients.

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