whilom
81one-time — adj 1. prior, earlier, former, previous, foregone; preceding, precedent, last, foregoing, antecedent, anterior; erstwhile, whilom; preexistent, preliminary; quondam, Archaic. sometime. 2. past, bygone, long ago, ancient; old, gone, long gone,… …
82past — adj 1. gone, gone by, bygone, by, ago, long ago, long gone; over, over and done with, forgotten, long forgotten, dead and buried, blown over; elapsed, lapsed, expired, run out, gone by; finished, finished up, defunct, no more, wound up, ended,… …
83previous — adj 1. prior, former, earlier, foregone; preceding, antecedent, anterior, precedent, precurrent; erstwhile, ex, onetime, sometime, quondam, whilom; foregoing, aforegoing, forerunning, pre existent; preliminary, prelusive, precursory, prevenient;… …
84archaism — 1. Archaisms are words and phrases that have fallen out of general use but are used for special effect, normally in literature. These vary in effect from the gently old fashioned or jocular (e.g. erstwhile, gentlewoman, goodly, hence, lest,… …
85former — [adj] previous in time or order above, aforementioned, aforesaid, ancient, antecedent, anterior, bygone, departed, earlier, erstwhile, ex *, first, foregoing, late, long ago*, long gone, of yore*, old, once, one time, past, preceding, prior,… …
86once — [adj/adv] in the past; occurred one time only already, a single time, at one time, away back, back, back when, before, but once, bygone, earlier, erstwhile, formerly, heretofore, in the old days, in the olden days, in times gone by, in times past …
87there are no birds in last year’s nest — Circumstances have altered. 1620 T. SHELTON tr. Cervantes’ Don Quixote II. lxxiv. I pray you go not on so fast, since that in the nests of the last yeere, there are no birds of this yeere. Whilom [formerly] I was a foole, but now I am wise. 1732… …
88at one time — adverb 1. simultaneously (Freq. 2) he took three cookies at a time • Syn: ↑at a time, ↑at once 2. at a previous time at one time he loved her her erstwhile writing she …
89whi|lom — «HWY luhm», adjective, adverb. Archaic. –adj. former: »a whilom friend. –adv. formerly; once. ╂[Old English hwīlum at times; dative plural of hwīl while, noun] …
90quilum — obs. form of whilom …
