earst
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English [edit]
Adverb [edit]
earst (not comparable)
- Obsolete spelling of erst.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene (1921),[1] Book I:
- So th' one for wrong, the other strives for right, And each to deadly shame would drive his foe: The cruell steele so greedily doth bight 75 In tender flesh that streames of bloud down flow, With which the armes, that earst so bright did show, Into a pure vermillion now are dyde: Great ruth in all the gazers harts did grow, Seeing the gored woundes to gape so wyde, 80 That victory they dare not wish to either side.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene (1921),[1] Book I:
West Frisian [edit]
Etymology [edit]
Germanic; compare Dutch eerst, German and archaic English erst
Adverb [edit]
earst
Adjective [edit]
earst (infl. earste)
