whilom

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Five years ago, the whilom Senator Magnus Johnson of Minnesota, and the Hearst press, suggested Dr. Copeland for President.

From Time Magazine Archive

The movie colony is now off, like a merrily misguided missile, on another of its whilom whooshes toward the unknown.

From Time Magazine Archive

For some time the Russian Soviet Government has had as its Minister to Poland whilom aristocratic Prince Obolensky.

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

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Umquhile, um′hwīl, adv. and adj. a Scotch form of Um′while, formerly, late, whilom.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various