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单词 erewhile
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erewhileadv.

/ɛːˈhwʌɪl/
Forms: see ere adv.1, prep., conj., and adj. and while n.
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: ere prep., while n.
Etymology: < ere prep. + while n. Compare erstwhile adv.
A while before, some time ago, formerly.
ΘΚΠ
the world > time > relative time > the past > [adverb]
erea822
fernOE
whileOE
erera1000
whilereOE
onceOE
somewhile1154
whilomc1175
herebeforec1200
somewhilesa1250
yorea1250
orc1275
rather?a1300
erewhilec1305
sometimea1325
sometimec1330
at or in sometime1340
in arrear1340
heretoforea1375
fernyear1377
once upon a timec1380
behinds1382
beforetimea1393
of olda1393
erenow1393
umquhilea1400
erst14..
fornec1400
yore whilec1400
of before1402
late1423
abefore1431
beforetimes1449
whilesc1480
sometime1490
aforrow?a1513
behind1526
quondamc1540
in foretime(s?c1550
erstwhile1569
erstwhiles1569
aleare1581
erewhiles1584
sometimes1597
formerly1599
anciently1624
olim1645
somewhile since1652
quondamly1663
forepassed1664
sometimea1684
backward1691
historically1753
time back1812
had-been1835
when1962
c1305 St. Andrew 91 in Early Eng. Poems & Lives Saints (1862) 100 Ic iseo mie swete louerd: and erwhile ic iseȝ Þat abydeþ me til ic come.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 20304 Me com tiþand arquil fra heuen.
c1440 Gesta Romanorum (Harl.) iv. 10 Sir, I seide to you erwhile, þat, etc.
1526 Bible (Tyndale) John ix. f. cxxxv I tolde you yerwhyle, And ye did nott heare.
a1592 R. Greene Sc. Hist. Iames IV (1598) i. sig. A3 What were those Puppits that hopt and skipt about me yearwhayle?
1595 W. S. Lamentable Trag. Locrine ii. v. 154 I, that erewhile did scare mine enemies..Must now depart.
a1678 A. Marvell Wks. III. 522 The tree erewhile fore~shortned to our view.
1724 A. Ramsay Tea-table Misc. (1733) II. 129 Forth that foam'd and roar'd erewhile Glides calmly down.
1810 W. Scott Lady of Lake ii. 49 Remember then thy hap ere while.
1870 W. Morris Earthly Paradise I. ii. 461 The faces weeping lay That erewhile laughed the loudest.

Derivatives

ereˈwhiles adv. [ < ere prep. + whiles n., conj., and adv.] Obsolete
ΘΚΠ
the world > time > relative time > the past > [adverb]
erea822
fernOE
whileOE
erera1000
whilereOE
onceOE
somewhile1154
whilomc1175
herebeforec1200
somewhilesa1250
yorea1250
orc1275
rather?a1300
erewhilec1305
sometimea1325
sometimec1330
at or in sometime1340
in arrear1340
heretoforea1375
fernyear1377
once upon a timec1380
behinds1382
beforetimea1393
of olda1393
erenow1393
umquhilea1400
erst14..
fornec1400
yore whilec1400
of before1402
late1423
abefore1431
beforetimes1449
whilesc1480
sometime1490
aforrow?a1513
behind1526
quondamc1540
in foretime(s?c1550
erstwhile1569
erstwhiles1569
aleare1581
erewhiles1584
sometimes1597
formerly1599
anciently1624
olim1645
somewhile since1652
quondamly1663
forepassed1664
sometimea1684
backward1691
historically1753
time back1812
had-been1835
when1962
1584 R. Scot Disc. Diuels & Spirits xxxiv, in Discouerie Witchcraft 550 The Pneumatomachi..did erwhiles ioine themselues to those that were sound of iudgement.
1598 Mucedorus sig. A4v Ere whiles assaulted with an vgly beare, Fayre Amadine in company all alone.
1635 J. Hayward tr. G. F. Biondi Donzella Desterrada 26 The very same you saw me with erewhiles.
1755 in S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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