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whilom

[hwahy-luhm, wahy-] / ˈʰwaɪ ləm, ˈwaɪ- /




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Said whilom Ambassador to Britain Charles Gates Dawes who attended, "I believe it is unprecedented for the accredited representative of a foreign power to submit himself to cross-examination."

From Time Magazine Archive

There was ancient Jack Kearns, owner and groom to seven whilom world champions, the man who took so much money out of Shelby.

From Time Magazine Archive

Believing as he still does that he is God's anointed, the whilom All Highest feels a duty, a pious obligation to preach.

From Time Magazine Archive

At the same time, he delivered a few more oblique shafts at his chief tormentor, Senator William Fulbright, a whilom hero of the intellectuals.

From Time Magazine Archive

On the Watch Though we went about our daily work with great regularity, we were never, I think, quite so cheerful as we had been before the visit of our whilom shipmates.

From Palm Tree Island by Strang, Herbert




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