erewhile

[ air-hwahyl, -wahyl ]

/ ɛərˈʰwaɪl, -ˈwaɪl /

a while before; formerly.

Origin of erewhile

Middle English word dating back to 1250–1300; see origin at ere, while

eretria, eretz israel, eretz yisrael, erev, erevan, erewhile, erewhon, erf, erfurt, erg, ergasia

What, for example, be these mikerots she was illuding to erewhile?

Fruits of Culture |Leo Tolstoy
Fate had fallen on his house, had marked it for destruction as erewhile that of Tantalus.

The Bride of the Nile, Complete |Georg Ebers
And she, taking courage, said: "One peradventure whom you erewhile met in the forest here?"

Margery [Gred], Complete |Georg Ebers
He may take our word for it there is good stuff there, in spite of the twaddle that encountered him erewhile at Hamburg.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 60, No. 374, December, 1846 |Various

Iddawc,” said Rhonabwy, “who was the man who spoke so marvellously unto Arthur erewhile?

The Mabinogion |Lady Charlotte Guest

erewhile

/ (ɛəˈwaɪl) /

archaic a short time ago; a little while before