whilom

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There was ancient Jack Kearns, owner and groom to seven whilom world champions, the man who took so much money out of Shelby.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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The rats were in a worse plight than their whilom victims; for wet, starving and bewildered, they were hunted through a strange warren by their most implacable enemy.

From Lives of the Fur Folk by Haviland, M. D.