erstwhile
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erstwhile (not comparable)
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erstwhile — see formerly
Adjective [edit]
erstwhile (not comparable)
- (literary, law) Former, previous.
- 1905, Baroness Emmuska Orczy, chapter 2, The Disappearance of Count Collini[1]:
- “Scarcely had Alice reached her twentieth birthday, than she gave her erstwhile fiancée [sic] his formal congé. […]”
- 1905, Baroness Emmuska Orczy, chapter 2, The Disappearance of Count Collini[1]:
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former, previous