Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Whilom"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Whilom \Whi"lom\ (hw[imac]"l[u^]m), adv. [AS. hw[=i]lum,
properly, at times, dative pl. of hw[=i]l; akin to G. weiland
formerly, OHG. hw[=i]l[=o]m, See {While}, n.]
Formerly; once; of old; erewhile; at times. [Obs. or Poetic]
--Spenser.
Whilom, as olde stories tellen us, There was a duke
that highte Theseus. --Chaucer.
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