Meaning

1 senses

  1. (not comparable, obsolete)At an earlier time.

Examples

4 sentences

  1. Able was I ere I saw him.

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  2. Thus he, / and, ere his speech was ended, smoothed the main, / and chased the clouds and brought the sun again.

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  3. But I heard him exclaim, ere he drove out of sight "Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good-night."

    deDoch hört’ ich ihn rufen, eh davon er sich macht’: „Frohe Weihnacht euch allen, allen gute Nacht!“

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  4. “Ravenswood,” said Colonel Ashton, crossing him as he went out, “you shall account for this ere long.” “When you please,” replied Ravenswood.

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Origin

From Middle English er, from Old English ǣr (adverb, conjunction, and preposition), from P

From Middle English er, from Old English ǣr (adverb, conjunction, and preposition), from Proto-West Germanic *airi, from Proto-Germanic *airiz, comparative of Proto-Germanic *airi (“early”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éyeri (“day, morning”) (compare Avestan 𐬀𐬫𐬀𐬭 (ayar, “day”), Gk. ἠέριος (ēérios, “at daybreak”), see also era, Albanian herët (“early in the morning, at daybreak”) ). The adverb erstwhile retains the Old English superlative ǣrest (“earliest”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian eer (“before”), Dutch eer (“before, sooner than”), German ehe (“before”).

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