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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

... the subject by writers of high authority. The fact is that Guevara, about the year 1518, commenced a life and letters of M. Aurelius which purported to be a translation of a Greek work found in Florence. Having sometime afterwards lent this MS. to the emperor it was surreptitiously copied and printed, as he informs us himself, first in Seville and afterwards in Portugal.... Guevara himself subsequently published it (1529) ...

— John Lyly • John Dover Wilson

... as he sat on his doorstep thinking of his wife and of his children when they were little and of all the years he had worked for them to keep them fed and clothed, he happened to remember the Beggar and the promise he had made to visit him sometime. ...

— The Laughing Prince - Jugoslav Folk and Fairy Tales • Parker Fillmore

... the reckless "recollections'' of dramatic and other celebrities? You gods, in lending ear to our prayer, remember too, above all other sorts and conditions of men, these our poor erring brothers and sisters, the sometime sommits of Mummerdom! ...

— Pagan Papers • Kenneth Grahame

... question of optimism or pessimism, which makes so much noise just now in Germany. Every human being must sometime decide for himself whether life is worth living. Suppose that in looking at the world and seeing how full it is of misery, of old age, of wickedness and {101} pain, and how unsafe is his own future, he yields ...

— The Will to Believe - and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy • William James

... has for sometime been fluctuating between hope and despair, tortured with anxiety, and hurried from one extreme to another, it affords a sort of gloomy relief to know the worst that can possibly happen; such was my situation. An indifference ...

— Life and Travels of Mungo Park in Central Africa • Mungo Park

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