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erst·while    Audio Help   [urst-hwahyl, -wahyl] Pronunciation Key
–adjective
1.former; of times past: erstwhile friends.
–adverb
2.Archaic. formerly; erst.

[Origin: 1560–70; erst + while]

1. past, bygone, previous.
1. current, present.
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erst·while    Audio Help   (ûrst'hwīl', -wīl')  Pronunciation Key 
adv.   In the past; at a former time; formerly.

adj.   Former: our erstwhile companions.

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erstwhile 
1569, from M.E. erest "soonest, earliest" (see ere) + while (q.v.).

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erstwhile

adjective
1. belonging to some prior time; "erstwhile friend"; "our former glory"; "the once capital of the state"; "her quondam lover" 

adverb
1. at a previous time; "at one time he loved her"; "her erstwhile writing"; "she was a dancer once"; [syn: once

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Erstwhile

Erst`while"\ (-hw[imac]l"), adv. Till then or now; heretofore; formerly. [Archaic]
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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