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Meaning of beforetime | Babel Free

Adverb CEFR B2
bɪˈfɔːtʌɪm

Definitions

Formerly, previously.

archaic, not-comparable

Equivalents

Polski drzewiej

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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