otherwhiles

English

Alternative forms

• otherwhile

Adverb

otherwhiles (not comparable)

1. (archaic) At another time, or other times.
2. (archaic) sometimes; occasionally.
   • 1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:

     At pleasure here we lie near Orleans;
     Otherwhiles the famish'd English, like pale ghosts,
     Faintly besiege us one hour in a month.