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Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 1 of 2

Part of speech: adjective (a.)

Having been formerly; former; late; whilom. Our sometime sister, now our queen. Shak. Ion, our sometime darling, whom we prized. Talfourd.

Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 2 of 2

Part of speech: adverb (adv.)

1. At a past time indefinitely referred to; once; formerly. Did they not sometime cry "All hail" to me Shak.

2. At a time undefined; once in a while; now and then; sometimes. Sometime we see a cloud that's dragonish, A vapor sometime like a bear or lion. Shak.

3. At one time or other hereafter; as, I will do it sometime. "Sometime he reckon shall." Chaucer.

Noah Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Structured JSON vendored from sktzofrenic/webster1828 at commit 5a58d9e0191eefaa51affbc1bb1b8bc5782ba6c0. The upstream README identifies the dictionary text as public domain and the project license as MIT.

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