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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



... of the night Waking she heard the night-fowl crow; The cock sang out an hour ere light: From the dark fen the oxen's low Came to her: without hope of change, In sleep she seemed to walk forlorn, Till cold winds woke the gray-eyed morn About ...
— Literary and General Lectures and Essays • Charles Kingsley
... basis to her policy of dealing with Coloured races, that humanitarianism as a dominating factor is invariably wanting, and that underlying her present policy is the principle of class aggrandizement, then we may urge her to halt ere it is too ...
— Native Life in South Africa, Before and Since • Solomon Tshekisho Plaatje
... together for a few minutes in the sitting-room, Abbie, Ester, Ralph and Mr. Foster. They had been having a half sad, half merry talk. It was the evening before the wedding. Ere this time to-morrow Abbie would have left them, and in just a little while the ocean would roll between them. Ester drew a heavy sigh as she thought of it all. This magic three weeks, which had glowed in beauty for her, such, as she told herself, her life would never see again, were just on the ...
— Ester Ried • Pansy (aka. Isabella M. Alden)
... more numerous and larger boys were so heavy that it was not long ere Dick, Dave, Tom and Harry were borne down to the dirt floor. Nor were they handled generously. All four received many an unfair blow. Fred's temper was up, for Dick had struck him on the ...
— The Grammar School Boys Snowbound - or, Dick & Co. at Winter Sports • H. Irving Hancock
... shame, the sudden sense of ill— Shame, Nature's hasty conscience, which forbids Weak inclination ere it grows to will, Or stays rash will before it ...
— Tales And Novels, Vol. 8 • Maria Edgeworth


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