Thesaurus / aforetime
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synonyms for aforetime
- heretofore
- already
- earlier
- once
- erstwhile
- back
- before
- lately
- radically
- water under the bridge
- anciently
- a while back
- at one time
- away back
- back when
- before now
- before this
- down memory lane
- eons ago
- erewhile
- in former times
- in the olden days
- in the past
- long ago
- of old
- of yore
- olden days
- once upon a time
- some time ago
- time was
- used to be
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How to use aforetime in a sentence
Send thou to thy foster-son Harald, and bid him receive from thee the lands and fiefs which they had aforetime here in Denmark.
THE SAGAS OF OLAF TRYGGVASON AND OF HARALD THE TYRANT (HARALD HAARDRAADE)SNORRI STURLUSONAforetime had the man been in the service 156 of Einar who had favoured him more than a little.
THE SAGAS OF OLAF TRYGGVASON AND OF HARALD THE TYRANT (HARALD HAARDRAADE)SNORRI STURLUSONSuch souls aforetime have inspired and guided worlds, and if we be not wholly bewitched by our Rhine-gold, they shall again.
THE MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. DAY, 1995, MEMORIAL ISSUEVARIOUSOur Great Master bore aforetime the most cruel disgrace in the same holy cause of vindicating the rights of man.
CONTINENTAL MONTHLY, VOL. I. FEBRUARY, 1862, NO. II.VARIOUSDost not know that the Earl of Gloucester is at hand, to do the thing which he did aforetime at Lincoln?
A LEGEND OF READING ABBEYCHARLES MACFARLANEAforetime she had devoted her efforts chiefly to Merle as being the better worth saving.
THE WRONG TWINHARRY LEON WILSONTenderly he eased his bulk to a flat stone, aforetime set in the church's faade, and dropped a crutch at either side.
THE WRONG TWINHARRY LEON WILSONHe was listlessly crossing the way as a train came along, and it was easy for the habit of the aforetime brakeman to move him.
BONAVENTUREGEORGE WASHINGTON CABLEHis wretchedness was due now to the fact that the aforetime huntress refused to be captured.
THE AMAZING MARRIAGE, COMPLETEGEORGE MEREDITHThe second song of Demodocus has the general theme of the Trojan War and suggests the grand event of the aforetime.
HOMER'S ODYSSEYDENTON J. SNIDERWORDS RELATED TO AFORETIME
- a while back
- aforetime
- already
- anciently
- at one time
- away back
- back
- back when
- before
- before now
- before this
- down memory lane
- earlier
- eons ago
- erewhile
- erstwhile
- heretofore
- in former times
- in the olden days
- in the past
- lately
- long ago
- of old
- of yore
- olden days
- once
- once upon a time
- radically
- some time ago
- time was
- used to be
- water under the bridge
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.