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adverb

Sometime adv.

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

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."

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

adjective

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

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Etymology of 'Sometime'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Sometime" Quotes from Famous Books

... fechtin' Jamie Fleck, [fighting] An' he swoor by his conscience That he could saw hemp-seed a peck; [sow] For it was a' but nonsense: [merely] The auld guidman raught down the pock, [reached, bag] An' out a handfu' gied him; [gave] Syne bad him slip frae 'mang the folk, [Then] Sometime when nae ane see'd him, ...

— Robert Burns - How To Know Him • William Allan Neilson

... with her work. After she has created a piece of wonderful scenery she proceeds to destroy it. The great cliffs of the Yosemite will sometime lose their grandeur and be replaced by gentle slopes down which the streams will flow quietly. The mountains of the Laurentian highlands in the northeastern portion of the continent undoubtedly were once lofty and picturesque, but there were no people upon the earth at that ...

— The Western United States - A Geographical Reader • Harold Wellman Fairbanks

... lips, the look in her eyes, the moulding of her cheeks—an all-absorbing smile. Once he was left alone he would see again that smile, and her smile of the day before, another with which she had greeted him sometime else, the smile which had been her answer, in the carriage that night, when he had asked her whether she objected to his rearranging her cattleyas; and the life of Odette at all other times, since he knew nothing of it, appeared to him upon a neutral and colourless background, ...

— Swann's Way - (vol. 1 of Remembrance of Things Past) • Marcel Proust

... They with the others betweene them are easily knowne but are of more vse to Mariners then to vs. Wee may rather take notice of those other names which by Astronomers Geographers Divines and Poets are giuen vnto them. Who sometime call the East the right hand part of the world, sometime the West, sometime the North, & sometime South, the diuersity is noted in these verses, Ad Boream terrae, Sed Coeli mensor ad Austrum, Praeco Dei exortum videt, occasumque Poeta. That is Geographers looke to the North, ...

— A Briefe Introduction to Geography • William Pemble

... obtained a hearing, which was not for sometime—for she, 'as a miserable and ridiculous victim and idiot,' was nearly as deep in disgrace as those 'shameless harpies the Lakes'—she told the whole truth as respected all parties with ...

— Wylder's Hand • J. Sheridan Le Fanu

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