elsewhen
Syllables: else·when/ˈɛlsʍɛn/US/ˈɛlsʍɛn/
elsewhen adverb: at some other time or times; somewhen else.
Adverb
elsewhen (not comparable)
- At some other time or times; somewhen else.
- And thus for this time I will take my leave of your mastership, purposing elsewhen to trouble you with the talk of longer letters, if I may learn that your gentleness will warrant my boldness therein.1552 July 21, Roger Ascham, [John Allen] Giles, “CXXXIX.—To Sir W[illiam] Cecil, (E, 7: and M, 1). Mostly about Sir John Cheke’s Recovery from Sickness. Villach July 12, 1552 [Julian calendar].”, in...
- On the Saturday following, her [Alice Benden's] husband [Edward Benden] willed her to go to church; which she both then and elsewhen refused to go.1563, John Foxe, “The Order of the Imprisonment and Tragical Handling of Alice Benden, Wife of Edward Benden, of the Parish of Staplehurst, in the County of Kent; for the Testimony of Christ’s...
Examples of elsewhen in a sentence
- Never, elsewhen, from heaven when all serene / Fell there more levin-bolts; nor flamed so oft / Comets with curses fraught.1854, Virgil, “The First Georgic”, in W[illiam] Sewell, transl., The Georgics of Virgil, Literally and Rhythmically Translated, […]...
- It may be used to describe my own performances elsewhere and elsewhen: [...]1955, J[ohn] L[angshaw] Austin, “Lecture V”, in J[ames] O[pie] Urmson, Marina Sibsà, editors, How to Do Things with Words: The William...
- For it can be argued that what SF [science fiction] calls the future—its quest for alien contacts and worlds elsewhere and elsewhen—is an infosphere.1992, George Slusser, “Introduction: Fiction as Information”, in George Slusser, Tom Shippey, editors, Fiction 2000: Cyberpunk and the...
- Any spacetime point in this boundary, which is distinct from the origin point, is both elsewhere and elsewhen from it.1994, Graham Nerlich, Andrew Westwell-Roper, “What Ontology Can Be About”, in Graham Nerlich, What Spacetime Explains: Metaphysical Essays...
Origin of elsewhen
From Middle English ellys whan; corresponding with else + when.
Questions about elsewhen
- What does elsewhen mean?
- Elsewhen means at some other time or times; somewhen else.
- How do you use elsewhen in a sentence?
- Never, elsewhen, from heaven when all serene / Fell there more levin-bolts; nor flamed so oft / Comets with curses fraught.
- What part of speech is elsewhen?
- Elsewhen is an adverb.
- How do you pronounce elsewhen?
- Elsewhen is pronounced /ˈɛlsʍɛn/ (UK).
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