word of the day :: erstwhile

erstwhile:

[urst-hwahyl, -wahyl]

–adjective

1. former; of times past: erstwhile friends.

-adverb

2. Archaic. formerly; erst.

Origin:

1560-70; erst + while

"After all my erstwhile dear, my no longer cherished; Need we say it was not love, just because it perished?"

 :: Edna St. Vincent Millay ::

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