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beforetime

Adverb CEFR B2
bɪˈfɔːtʌɪm

Definitions

Formerly, previously.

archaic, not-comparable

Equivalents

Polskidrzewiej

Examples

“There was a certayne man called Simon, which beforetyme in the same cite, used witchecrafte and bewithched the people, sayinge that he was a man that coulde do greate thinges.”
“Thou shalt see⟳ Gold tarnished, and the grey above the green And as the thing thou seest thy face⟳ shall be And no more as the thing beforetime seen.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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