Hypertext Webster Gateway: "erstwhile"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Erstwhile \Erst`while"\ (-hw[imac]l"), adv.
Till then or now; heretofore; formerly. [Archaic]
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
erstwhile
adj : belonging to some prior time; "erstwhile friend"; "our
former glory"; "the once capital of the state"; "her
quondam lover" [syn: {erstwhile(a)}, {former(a)}, {once(a)},
{onetime(a)}, {quondam(a)}, {sometime(a)}]
adv : at a previous time; "once he loved her"; "her erstwhile
writing" [syn: {once}, {formerly}, {at one time}, {erst}]
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