beforetime

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Is this the beforetime for Johns, a memory of a time before he decided to be an artist, before he turned inward and began to live almost entirely in his head?

From Washington Post • Sep. 29, 2021

This fellow of Clare Hall, when I began to preach the gospel, became my enemy, and did me some injury in some ecclesiastical privileges which beforetime I had enjoyed.

From The Baptist Magazine, Vol. 27, 1835 by Various

Thus "the Lord gave Israel a saviour, so that they went out from under the hand of the Syrians: and the children of Israel dwelt in their tents, as beforetime".

From Myths of Babylonia and Assyria by Mackenzie, Donald Alexander

We surmised that he found encouragement in this house, and had beforetime listened to thy childish and unreasoning folly.

From A Little Girl in Old Philadelphia by Douglas, Amanda Minnie

Nay, she had beforetime hinted that some individual of the name, of moderate wealth and good breeding, might in time be found for a suitable alliance.

From Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 by Roby, John