Crossword clues for whilom
whilom
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"at time past" (archaic), c.1200, from Old English hwilum "at times," dative case of while (q.v.). As a conjunction from 1610s. Similar formation in German weiland "formerly."
Wiktionary
a. (label en now literary) former, sometime, late, erstwhile, quondam. adv. 1 (label en obsolete) while. 2 (label en dated) once upon a time, formerly. conj. while.
Usage examples of "whilom".
Merenra, now nomarch of Bubastis, but whilom commander over Israel at Pa-Ramesu, paused one noon with his train at the well.
That each of you, to shorten with your way In this voyage, shall tellen tales tway, To Canterbury-ward, I mean it so, And homeward he shall tellen other two, Of aventures that whilom have befall.
Duc de Vitry, the answering devotion professed by the notary was as insincere as the disinterested attachment to her lover displayed by the whilom maid of honour.
The greatest clerks are not the wisest men, As whilom to the wolf thus spake the mare: Of all their art ne count I not a tare.
It was on the fifth floor of this tenement that Father Concha, instructed by Heaven knows what priestly source of information, looked to meet with Sebastian, the whilom bodyservant of the late Colonel Monreal of Xeres.
I must with strengthe win her in the place: And well I wot, withoute help or grace Of thee, ne may my strengthe not avail: Then help me, lord, to-morr'w in my bataille, For thilke fire that whilom burned thee, As well as this fire that now burneth me.
He is, as my Lord of Mackworth said, the whilom Baron Falworth, the outlawed, attainted traitor.
A markys whilom lord was of that lond, As were hise worthy eldres hym bifore, And obeisant and redy to his hond Were alle hise liges, bothe lasse and moore.
A povre wydwe, somdel stape in age, Was whilom dwellyng in a narwe cotage Biside a greve, stondynge in a dale.
For thilke peyne, and thilke hoote fir, In which thou whilom brendest for desir Whan that thow usedest the greet beautee Of faire yonge fresshe Venus free, And haddest hir in armes at thy wille- Al though thee ones on a tyme mysfille Whan Vulcanus hadde caught thee in his las, And foond thee liggynge by his wyf, allas!
Cresus This riche Cresus whilom kyng of Lyde, Of whiche Cresus Cirus soore hym dradde, Yet was he caught amyddes al his pryde, And to be brent men to the fyr hym ladde.
All to which not a lot snapped The Nolan of the Calabashes at his whilom eweheart photognomist who by this sum taken was as much incensed by Saint Bruno as that what he had consummed was his own panegoric, and wot a lout about it if it was only a pippappoff pigeon shoot that gracesold getrunner, the man of centuries, was bowled out by judge, jury and umpire at batman's biff like a witchbefooled legate.
Xenophobia was not encouraged by Mitford or Easley, or any of those involved in introducing the new world to its whilom residents.
Les and Daffyd shouted to gether, each grabbing the whilom combatants.
No mandamus could locate the depleted whilom Breyfawkes as he had entered into an ancient moratorium, dating back to the times of the early barters, and only the junior partner Barren could be found, who entered an appearance and turned up, upon a notice of motion and after service of the motion by interlocutory injunction, among the male jurors to be an absolete turfwoman, originally from the proletarian class, with still a good title to her sexname of Ann Doyle, 2 Coppinger's Cottages, the Doyle's country.