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prepositions | beforetime |

As a noun prepositions

is .

As an adverb beforetime is

(archaic) formerly, previously.

prepositions

English

Alternative forms

* (archaic)

Noun

(head)

    • Verb

    (head)
  • (preposition)
    • ----

    beforetime

    English

    Adverb

    (-)
  • (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.

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