erewhile
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.23 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "I am as fair now as I was erewhile."
- "She runs you through, nor asks the word. O thou, that dear and happy Isle, The garden of the world erewhile, Thou Paradise of the four seas Which Heaven planted us to please,"
- "The dame sans merci's broken strain, Whom I erewhile, perchance, have known, When Orleans filled the Bourbon throne, A siren singing by the Seine."
- "Quoth he to me, "Thou shalt fare with me to Cairo where dwelleth a friend of mine and to him will I give thee, for erewhile I promised him that on this voyage I would secure for him a fair woman for handmaid.""
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂ey- Proto-Indo-European *-eri Proto-Indo-European *h₂éyeri Proto-Germanic *airi Proto-Germanic *airiz Old English ǣr Middle English er English ere English while English erewhile From ere + while.