whilom

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Believing as he still does that he is God's anointed, the whilom All Highest feels a duty, a pious obligation to preach.

From Time Magazine Archive

General Russell will be succeeded by a U. S. Minister, Dana Munro, whilom chief of the State Department's Latin-American division.

From Time Magazine Archive

One question was whether he had given money to Albert Bacon Fall, whilom Secretary of the Interior.

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After him scuttled his whilom "Prime Minister," the recently proud and pompous Wang Ching-wei.

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It had been one of those fearfully ingenious tricks of Fate which she deals out in such a startlingly unexpected manner—this meeting with his whilom fianc�e.

From The Tigress by Warner, Anne