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onest

onest is the obsolete form of oncet.

Meaning of oncet

Adverb

oncet (not comparable)

  1. (Southern US, nonstandard, South Midland US) Once.
    • If we could see the last of that man, Didenhover, oncet, I'd take hold of the plough myself, and see if I couldn't make a living out of it.1854, Elizabeth Wetherell, Queechy, Volume I
    Synonyms:
    once

Questions about onest

What is onest the obsolete form of?
Onest is the obsolete form of oncet.

Words near onest in the dictionary

  1. onesies
  2. onesome
  3. onesomes
  4. onespot fringehead
  5. onespot fringeheads
  6. onest
  7. oneteen
  8. oneth
  9. oneths
  10. oneties
  11. onetime

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Adapted from Wiktionary: onest (page history and authors); oncet (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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