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Antonyms for erewhile
Grammar : Adv |
Spell : air-hwahyl, -wahyl |
Phonetic Transcription : ɛərˈʰwaɪl, -ˈwaɪl |
Definition of erewhile
- As in formerly : adv previously in time or order
- What, for example, be these mikerots she was illuding to erewhile?
- Extract from : « Fruits of Culture » by Leo Tolstoy
- Fate had fallen on his house, had marked it for destruction as erewhile that of Tantalus.
- Extract from : « The Bride of the Nile, Complete » by Georg Ebers
- Therefor he gave me the falcon on my hand which had erewhile been my lover's gift.
- Extract from : « Margery [Gred], Complete » by Georg Ebers
- In that you say not truth; for you erewhile have so misused my knight, that he may chance to die.
- Extract from : « Jaufry the Knight and the Fair Brunissende » by Mary Lafon
- In the centre of the erewhile camp they found the man they sought.
- Extract from : « Haviland's Chum » by Bertram Mitford
- For betwixt the oak-tree and the thorn Meseemeth erewhile was I born.
- Extract from : « Poems by the Way » by William Morris
- The romance-lore, both oral and written, which erewhile delighted the cottager, is growing out of date.
- Extract from : « Notes and Queries, Number 139, June 26, 1852 » by Various
- Yet she might about as well have stayed where she was, for the erewhile great whirling gold town was now as a city of the dead.
- Extract from : « Aletta » by Bertram Mitford
- It had been excavated by the washing of the stream, erewhile rapid, but now dried up.
- Extract from : « Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 53, No. 331, May, 1843 » by Various
- He, for his part, was well pleased to find in the young knight the companionship he had erewhile had in the pueri.
- Extract from : « Margery [Gred], Complete » by Georg Ebers
Synonyms for erewhile
- a while back
- aforetime
- already
- anciently
- at one time
- away back
- back
- back when
- before
- before now
- before this
- down memory lane
- earlier
- eons ago
- erewhile
- erstwhile
- heretofore
- in former times
- in the olden days
- in the past
- lately
- long ago
- of old
- of yore
- olden days
- once
- once upon a time
- radically
- some time ago
- time was
- used to be
- water under the bridge
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