Sometyme

adj, adv

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Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Obsolete form of sometime. alt-of, not-comparable, obsolete

    "The records of Stepney parish note the burial of Henry Rainsford "an old sailer sometyme beadle of Ratclife and now a pencioner.""

Adverb
  1. 1
    Archaic spelling of sometime. alt-of, archaic

    "Sometimes it'll make a leitmotiv of a famous line like Thomas Wyatt's "They fle from me that sometyme did me seke," flashing the line again and again in different contexts."

Synonyms

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erstwhileone daysomedaysomewhenancientany time

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"Sometimes it'll make a leitmotiv of a famous line like Thomas Wyatt's "They fle from me that sometyme did me seke," flashing the line again and again in different contexts."

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