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Definition of aforetime :
In time past; formerly.
Synonyms:
earlier, already, once, erstwhile, formerly, precede, before, beforetime, previously
Usage examples:
- To an idler or a trifler I had verily been loth To resign thee, O my distaff, for the same land bred us both: In the land Corinthian Archias built aforetime, thou hadst birth, In our island's core and marrow, whence have sprung the kings of earth: To the home I now transfer thee of a man who knows full well Every craft whereby men's bodies dire diseases may repel: There to live in sweet Miletus. - "Theocritus", Theocritus.
- Man himself took his own place in the majestic procession; he, too, was simply the culmination of a long ascent, with the roots of his being more deeply in the dust than he had ever dreamed and compelled to confess himself akin to what he had aforetime scorned. - "Modern Religious Cults and Movements", Gaius Glenn Atkins.
- Aforetime we were friends, but of this troth I now would fain be rid. - "The Nibelungenlied", Unknown.
