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Former   /fˈɔrmər/   Listen
adjective
Former  adj.  
1.
Preceding in order of time; antecedent; previous; prior; earlier; hence, ancient; long past. "For inquire, I pray thee, of the former age." "The latter and former rain."
2.
Near the beginning; preceeding; as, the former part of a discourse or argument.
3.
Earlier, as between two things mentioned together; first mentioned. "A bad author deserves better usage than a bad critic; a man may be the former merely through the misfortune of an ill judgment; but he can not be latter without both that and an ill temper."
Synonyms: Prior; previous; anterior; antecedent; preceding; foregoing.


noun
Former  n.  
1.
One who forms; a maker; a creator.
2.
(Mech.)
(a)
A shape around which an article is to be shaped, molded, woven wrapped, pasted, or otherwise constructed.
(b)
A templet, pattern, or gauge by which an article is shaped.
(c)
A cutting die.





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"Former" Quotes from Famous Books



... took Polly to the Nobles' ranch in Santa Barbara, in the hope that the old scenes and old friends might soothe her, and give her strength to take up the burden of life with something of her former sunshiny spirit. ...
— Polly Oliver's Problem • Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
... remembering also that the former theory was rapidly disappearing from the world. These Socialist colonies were not to be eternal, after all: they were but temporary refuges for minds that were behind the age. Probably another century or ...
— Dawn of All • Robert Hugh Benson
... Solons of the land, in solemn thoughtfulness, attend the sage injunctions of their learned chief. Too enfeebled by age and previous exertion to undergo the fatigues of parliamentary duty, the baron here receives the visits of his former colleagues, and snatching half an hour from his favourite recreation, gives a decided turn to the politics of a party by the cogency of his reasoning and the brilliancy of his arguments. The Earl of ...
— The English Spy • Bernard Blackmantle
... function of Stonehenge, therefore, it will be useful to compare it with similar existing stone circles. The largest of these in this country is Avebury, not many miles distant from Stonehenge. Unluckily, to-day it is so ruined that its former greatness is hardly to be distinguished by the unskilled observer. Formerly comprising some hundreds of unhewn Sarsen stones, barely a score remain in position at the present day. In Avebury, as it was, can be found the early typic model of which Stonehenge is the final product. The use of ...
— Stonehenge - Today and Yesterday • Frank Stevens
... voices, we suppose it belongs to those passing shadows. The soul, in its present condition, is an exile from the orb of light; its ignorance is forgetfulness; and whatever we can perceive of truth, or imagine of beauty, is but a reminiscence of our former more glorious state of being. He who reverences the gods, and subdues his own passions, returns at last to the blest condition from which he fell. But to talk, or think, about these things with proud ...
— Philothea - A Grecian Romance • Lydia Maria Child


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