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Earst vs Erst - What's the difference?

earst | erst |

As adverbs the difference between earst and erst

is that earst is while erst is (obsolete) first of all, before (some other specified thing).

As an adjective erst is

(obsolete) first.

earst

English

Adverb

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  • * 1590 , , The Faerie Queene (1921), Book I:
    • So th' one for wrong, the other strives for right, And each to deadly shame would drive his foe: The cruell steele so greedily doth bight 75 In tender flesh that streames of bloud down flow, With which the armes, that earst so bright did show, Into a pure vermillion now are dyde: Great ruth in all the gazers harts did grow, Seeing the gored woundes to gape so wyde, 80 That victory they dare not wish to either side.
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    erst

    English

    Alternative forms

    * arste * (l) (dialectal)

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) erste, from (etyl) .

    Adjective

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  • (obsolete) First.

    • Etymology 2

    From (etyl) erst, arst, erest, from (etyl) , (etyl) eerst.

    Adverb

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  • (obsolete) First of all, before (some other specified thing).
  • (obsolete) Sooner (than); before.
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  • *:Thenne he sente the varlet ageyne and bad hym telle Kyng Mark that I wille come as soone as I am hole / for erste I maye doo hym noo good / Thenne Kynge Mark hadde his ansuer / There with came Elyas and badde the Kynge yelde vp the castel
  • (archaic, poetic) Formerly, once, erstwhile.
    • Quotations
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    Derived terms
    * erstwhile

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