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Formerly   /fˈɔrmərli/   Listen
Formerly

adverb
1.
At a previous time.  Synonyms: at one time, erst, erstwhile, once.  "Her erstwhile writing" , "She was a dancer once"






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"Formerly" Quotes from Famous Books



... having consented to see in himself merely the necessary agent of a good to be done, he could escape from self-questioning only by shutting himself up in the practical exigencies of his work, closing his eyes and his thoughts to everything which had formerly related it to a wider world, had given meaning and beauty ...
— The Fruit of the Tree • Edith Wharton

... I have formerly talked with you about a Military Dictionary. The eldest Mr. Macbean[389], who was with Mr. Chambers[390], has very good materials for such a work, which I have seen, and will do it at a very low rate[391]. I think the terms of War and Navigation might be comprised, ...
— Life Of Johnson, Vol. 1 • Boswell, Edited by Birkbeck Hill

... intermediate region, the fierce Cachalot inclines toward the south, devastating the warm waters. On the contrary, the Free Whale fears the warm waters,—we should rather say, that they did, formerly, fear them,—they have become so scarce. They are never found in the warm southern current; it is that fact that led to the current being noticed, and thence to the discovery of the true course from America to Europe. From Europe to America, the trade ...
— Sanders' Union Fourth Reader • Charles W. Sanders

... future triumph of the true religion of which Israel was the bringer,—[51]returned, yet not as the ideal of the prophetic spirit, but as a dogma, the product of scriptural interpretation. The pure monotheism, by which formerly a place in the Providence of God had been allotted to everything, even to moral evil,[52] became corrupted, under the influence of Parsism, by the conception of two kingdoms, of God and of the Devil. The angels, originally ...
— A Comparative View of Religions • Johannes Henricus Scholten

... to be quoted. We only mention the Greek nation, perhaps the greatest and most illustrious of all nations that ever failed in their political career, because we are well informed and personally acquainted with the details that brought this formerly world-wide respected and valued gem of civilization into insignificance in the eye of the scornful, and a plaything in the hands of the so-called great ...
— Conversion of a High Priest into a Christian Worker • Meletios Golden


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