beforetime
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (British) IPA: /bɪˈfɔːtʌɪm/
beforetime (not comparable)
- (archaic) Formerly, previously.
- 1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, Acts VIII:
- There was a certayne man called Simon, which beforetyme in the same cite, used witchecrafte and bewithched the people, sayinge that he was a man that coulde do greate thinges.
- 1866, Algernon Swinburne, A Ballad of Burdens, lines 33-36
- Thou shalt see
- Gold tarnished, and the grey above the green
- And as the thing thou seest thy face shall be
- And no more as the thing beforetime seen.
- 1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, Acts VIII:
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