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toforetime

toforetime adverb: previously, beforehand.

Adverb

toforetime (not comparable)

  1. (obsolete) Previously, beforehand.
    • Also there cam a table of sylver, and the holy vessell of the Sankgreall, which Sir Launcelot had sene toforetyme in Kynge Pecchers house.1485, Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book XIII

Origin of toforetime

From tofore + time.

Questions about toforetime

What does toforetime mean?
Toforetime means previously, beforehand.
What part of speech is toforetime?
Toforetime is an adverb.

Words near toforetime in the dictionary

  1. Tofitian
  2. Tofitians
  3. tofogliflozin
  4. tofore
  5. toforehand
  6. toforetime
  7. TofR
  8. tofrush
  9. TOFs
  10. toft
  11. toft and croft

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