aforetime
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Is aforetime a Scrabble word?
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Definition
adv (English)
1. (archaic) In time past; in a former time; formerly.Examples: "Then I walked about, till I found on the further side, a great river of sweet water, running with a strong current; whereupon I called to mind the boat-raft I had made aforetime and said to myself, "Needs must I make another; haply I may free me from this strait.[…]""; "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."Synonyms: aforetimesarchaicnot-comparable
adj (English)
1. (archaic) Former.Examples: "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."archaicnot-comparable
noun (English)
1. (archaic) A former time.Examples: "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."archaic
Definition source: Wiktionary