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

Ambition, in desiring to be advanced to equal grace and favour, as you have been beforetime; that grace you had then, you got not in a day or year.

From State Trials, Political and Social Volume 1 (of 2) by Stephen, Harry Lushington, Sir

You have cleverly fooled me beforetime, With a dainty scorn, and then an imploring forgiveness!

From Poems by Howells, William Dean

Persecution had beforetime visited Patara, in common with other parts of the Roman Empire; and there were ominous signs, like the first mutterings of an earthquake, that a similar calamity might come again.

From The Mother of St. Nicholas A Story of Duty and Peril by Balfour, Grant

Peradventure, if I had not been beforetime so careful of my favours, I had been woo'd and wedded with the best of 'em.

From The Legendary and Poetical Remains of John Roby author of 'Traditions of Lancashire', with a sketch of his literary life and character by Roby, John