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Formerly; in the past.formalliterarynot-comparable
erstwhile
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Former, previous.Indialiterarynot-comparable
- “Scarcely had Alice reached her twentieth birthday, than she gave her erstwhile fiancée^([sic]) his formal congé.[…]”
- As an aftermath of the erstwhile competition between companies, 41 goods depots served the Liverpool and Birkenhead docks in 1923.
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Respected, honourable.not-comparableproscribed
- If you're for one of my erstwhile opponents, that's O.K. Just don't work too hard.