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aforetyme

aforetyme is the archaic form of aforetime.

Meaning of aforetime

Adjective

aforetime (not comparable)

  1. (archaic) Former.
    • 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.1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 212

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Questions about aforetyme

What is aforetyme the archaic form of?
Aforetyme is the archaic form of aforetime.

Words near aforetyme in the dictionary

  1. aforests
  2. aforethought
  3. aforetime
  4. aforetimes
  5. aforetold
  6. aforetyme
  7. aforetymes
  8. aforewrit
  9. aforewritten
  10. aformentioned
  11. afortiori

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