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单词 erstwhile
释义 erstwhile, adv. and a.|ˈɜːsthwaɪl|
[f. erst + while adv. (The stress is variable.)]
A. adv. Some while ago, formerly. arch. Also ˈerstwhiles [see whiles], in same sense.
1569Spenser Sonn. ix. in Van der Noodt's Theatre for Worldlings, Which erstwhile [later edd. earst] so pleasaunt scent did yelde.1584R. Scot Discov. Witchcr. iii. xix. 56 They resist the truth erstwhile by them professed.1599Sandys Europæ Spec. (1632) 184 Those very same minds, wherein they were erst-whiles enshrined with all devotion.1624Gataker Transubst. 209 Which our adversarie also Earstwhiles confessed.1662Glanvill Lux Orient. 180 Those thick and clammy vapours which erstwhile ascended in such vast measures..must..descend again.1881A. J. Duffield Don Quix. II. 407 During that year the clouds erstwhile had withheld their dew from the earth.
B. adj. = former. (Cf. whilom.) literary.
1903‘A. McNeill’ Egregious English iii. 31 The erstwhile portly mother of daughters.1909Westm. Gaz. 21 Aug. 13/1 A tottering pleasure-resort, whose erstwhile patrons look more longingly every year at the pretty and easily reached villages of Normandy and Brittany.1925L. Housman Odd Pairs i. 24 Her erstwhile rival.
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