aforetime
advEtymology
From Middle English a fore tyme, afore tyme, aforetyme, afortym, a-for-tyme, afortymez; equivalent to afore- + time.
- derived from fore tyme
Definitions
In time past
In time past; in a former time; formerly.
- 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.
Former.
- 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.
A former time.
- 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.
- The aforetime of stereotyping residence styles, so to speak, has been abandoned altogether, and, inside of uniformity, variety is sought to be developed by the architects.
- Prov. 8:23 מקַּדמי ארץ really means from all the aforetimes of the earth.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for aforetime. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA