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adverb

Sometime adv.

At a past time indefinitely referred to; once; formerly. "Did they not sometime cry "All hail" to me?"

At a time undefined; once in a while; now and then; sometimes. "Sometime we see a cloud that's dragonish, A vapor sometime like a bear or lion."

At one time or other hereafter; as, I will do it sometime. "Sometime he reckon shall."

adjective

Sometime adj. Having been formerly; former; late; whilom. "Our sometime sister, now our queen." "Ion, our sometime darling, whom we prized."

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Etymology of 'Sometime'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Sometime" Quotes from Famous Books

... reason for their final departure from Kadesh. In the district to the east of Jordan the (Canaanite) Amorites had, sometime previously, driven the Ammonites from the lower Jabbok and deprived the Moabites of all their territory to the north of the Arnon; on the plateau opposite Jericho Heshbon had become the capital of Sihon, the Amorite king. This sovereign now ...

— Prolegomena to the History of Israel • Julius Wellhausen

... and the company of dragoons, with A. J. Smith, Davidson, Stoneman, and Dr. Griffin, quartered in an adobe-house close by. Fremont held his court in the only two-story frame-house in the place. After sometime spent at Pryor's house, General Kearney ordered me to call on Fremont to notify him of his arrival, and that he desired to see him. I walked round to the house which had been pointed out to me as his, inquired ...

— Memoirs of Three Civil War Generals, Complete • U. S. Grant, W. T. Sherman, P. H. Sheridan

... Larrimer, he's no use to us; if he kills Larrimer, it's good riddance. The kid is going to get bumped off sometime, anyway. He's ...

— Black Jack • Max Brand

... in the center of each hill with his fingers, inserted the roots and pressed the earth around the roots with his hands. Several "seasons" and several drawings from the plantbeds were usually required before the entire crop was planted, which was frequently not until sometime in July. ...

— Tobacco in Colonial Virginia - "The Sovereign Remedy" • Melvin Herndon

... received telegraphic advices from Tucson to arrest them. He found the trio sometime in the afternoon. They had got their effects together and sent them ahead on a wagon. They were themselves on horseback, about ...

— When the West Was Young • Frederick R. Bechdolt

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