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aforetime

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

adverb

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


adjective

aforetime

/ 蓹藞蹿蓴藧藢迟补瑟尘 /

adverb

  1. archaic.
    formerly
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of aforetime1

First recorded in 1525鈥35; afore + time
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Yet I do not believe that the world about us will ever again be as it was of old, or the light of the Sun as it was aforetime.

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"Well, I might be able to imagine it, but I'd sooner not. Bad enough to know you're going to come to some awful end without thinking about it aforetime."

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Now it may be possible with some ingenuity of argument鈥擫aud himself had aforetime made such an attempt鈥攖o regard the Battle of the Churches as a contest of the reason; in practice its provincialism is due to the fact that it was concerned, not with the truth, but with what men had held to be the truth.

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Upon this very wall where now thou standest sorely troubled, stood aforetime King Hezekiah.

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If, however, the clergy were to give heed to Mr. Ruskin's words, and at once proceed to the indiscriminate excommunication of usurers, would they not be initiating a social revolution, altogether176 different from that orderly upgrowth of a better state of things which has commended itself aforetime to Mr. Ruskin himself?

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