英和和英

語源

ere +‎ while

副詞

erewhile (not comparable)

1. (archaic or poetic) Some time ago; beforehand; formerly.
   • 1595, Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream:

     I am as fair now as I was erewhile.

   • 1600s, Andrew Marvell A Garden:

     She runs you through, nor asks the word.

     O thou, that dear and happy Isle,

     The garden of the world erewhile,

     Thou Paradise of the four seas

     Which Heaven planted us to please,

   • 1800s, Oliver Wendell Holmes, The Flâneur:

     The dame sans merci's broken strain,

     Whom I erewhile, perchance, have known,

     When Orleans filled the Bourbon throne,

     A siren singing by the Seine.

   • 1886-88, Richard F. Burton, The Supplemental Nights to the Thousand Nights and a Night:

     Quoth he to me, "Thou shalt fare with me to Cairo where dwelleth a friend of mine and to him will I give thee, for erewhile I promised him that on this voyage I would secure for him a fair woman for handmaid."

同意語

• erstwhile
• erstwhiles

参考

• whilere

アナグラム

• wheelier, while-ere, wire-heel