beforetime

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Is this the beforetime for Johns, a memory of a time before he decided to be an artist, before he turned inward and began to live almost entirely in his head?

From Washington Post • Sep. 29, 2021

Thus "the Lord gave Israel a saviour, so that they went out from under the hand of the Syrians: and the children of Israel dwelt in their tents, as beforetime".

From Myths of Babylonia and Assyria by Mackenzie, Donald Alexander

Thou shalt see Gold tarnished, and the grey above the green; And as the thing thou seest thy face shall be, And no more as the thing beforetime seen.

From Poems & Ballads (First Series) by Swinburne, Algernon Charles

We surmised that he found encouragement in this house, and had beforetime listened to thy childish and unreasoning folly.

From A Little Girl in Old Philadelphia by Douglas, Amanda Minnie

Thou shall thyself behold some of the mysteries touching which I have warned thee beforetime.

From Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 by Roby, John