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View synonyms for aforetime

aforetime

[ uh-fawr-tahym, uh-fohr- ]

adverb

  1. in time past; in a former time; previously.


adjective

aforetime

/ əˈfɔːˌtaɪm /

adverb

  1. archaic.
    formerly


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Word History and Origins

Origin of aforetime1

First recorded in 1525–35; afore + time

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Example Sentences

Send thou to thy foster-son Harald, and bid him receive from thee the lands and fiefs which they had aforetime here in Denmark.

Aforetime had the man been in the service 156 of Einar who had favoured him more than a little.

Such souls aforetime have inspired and guided worlds, and if we be not wholly bewitched by our Rhine-gold, they shall again.

Our Great Master bore aforetime the most cruel disgrace in the same holy cause of vindicating the rights of man.

Dost not know that the Earl of Gloucester is at hand, to do the thing which he did aforetime at Lincoln?

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