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Ere   /ɛr/   Listen
preposition
Ere  prep., adv.  
1.
Before; sooner than. (Archaic or Poetic) "Myself was stirring ere the break of day." "Ere sails were spread new oceans to explore." "Sir, come down ere my child die."
2.
Rather than. "I will be thrown into Etna,... ere I will leave her."
Ere long, before, shortly.
Ere now, formerly, heretofore.


verb
Ere  v. t.  To plow. (Obs.) See Ear, v. t.





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"Ere" Quotes from Famous Books



... Messiah," answered the preacher. "But he is coming after me. I prepare the way for him like the morning breeze ere the sun rises. As the heaven is above the earth, so is he greater than I. It is my prayer that I may be worthy to loosen his shoe latchets. I sprinkle your heads with water; he will sprinkle them with fire. He will separate you according as your hearts be good or evil. He will lay up ...
— I.N.R.I. - A prisoner's Story of the Cross • Peter Rosegger
... "He will be dead ere the sun rises, and I beg you to forgive me if I leave you for a while, for I must go to give ...
— Desert Love • Joan Conquest
... road the younger son must tread, Ere he win to hearth and saddle of his own,'" she quoted. "Why, if that isn't romantic, then nothing is romantic. Think of all the younger sons out over the world, on a myriad of adventures winning to those same ...
— Adventure • Jack London
... now, my Thaddeus, at the early age of nineteen, going to engage the enemies of your country. Ere I resign my greatest comfort to the casualties of war; ere I part with you, perhaps forever, I would inform you who your father really was—that father whose existence you have hardly known and whose name you have never heard. ...
— Thaddeus of Warsaw • Jane Porter
... But ere on this I take a step to utter Oracles holier and soundlier based Than ever the Pythian pronounced for men From out the tripod and the Delphian laurel, I will unfold for thee with learned words Many a consolation, lest perchance, Still bridled by religion, thou suppose Lands, sun, and sky, sea, ...
— Of The Nature of Things • [Titus Lucretius Carus] Lucretius


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