Whilom

//ˈwaɪləm//

Synonyms for "whilom" (114 found)

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Adverb(11 words)

sometimes while afore aforehand already antecedently at one time at times before beforehand beforetime

Conjunction(3 words)

Adjective(8 words)

antecedent anterior asleep at rest cadaverous clay-cold dead dead as hector

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Related words (57)

Adverb(20 words)

intermittently irregularly late now and again now and then occasionally on occasion once once in a while precedently previously seld sometime sporadically therebefore uncommonly whilere yestertide yestertime yet

Adjective(28 words)

kaput late lifeless living impaired low no longer with us no more old olden one-time past perished precedent preceding previous prior pushing up daisies quondam reposing resting

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six feet deep six feet under sometime stiff unalive used-to-be wasted with god

onetime recently then yesterday

Conjunction(5 words)

till until unto when whilst

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former once upon time sometime while

Sample sentences

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Amazed, AEneas viewed / tall structures rise, where whilom huts were found, / the streets, the gates, the bustle and the sound.

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Far off there lies, with many a spacious plain, / the land of Mars, by Thracians tilled and sown, / where stern Lycurgus whilom held his reign; / a hospitable shore, to Troy well-known, / her home-gods leagued in union with our own, / while Fortune smiled.

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Lo I the man, vvhoſe Muſe vvhilome did maske, / As time her taught, in lowly Sheapards vveeds, / Am novv enforſt a far unfitter taske, […]

Source: wiktionary

VVith ſuch an invention [a sumptuary law] did Zelevcus vvhilome correct the corrupted maners of the Locrines.

Source: wiktionary

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