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aforetime

/uh-fawr-tahym, uh-fohr-/US // əˈfɔrˌtaɪm, əˈfoʊr- //UK // (əˈfɔːˌtaɪm) //

前期,以前,之前,以前的事

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Definitions

adv.副词 adverb
  1. 1
    • : in time past; in a former time; previously.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : former; previous.

Synonyms & Antonyms

as informerly

Examples

  • Send thou to thy foster-son Harald, and bid him receive from thee the lands and fiefs which they had aforetime here in Denmark.

  • Aforetime had the man been in the service 156 of Einar who had favoured him more than a little.

  • Such souls aforetime have inspired and guided worlds, and if we be not wholly bewitched by our Rhine-gold, they shall again.

  • Our Great Master bore aforetime the most cruel disgrace in the same holy cause of vindicating the rights of man.

  • Dost not know that the Earl of Gloucester is at hand, to do the thing which he did aforetime at Lincoln?