erelong, adv.
(ɛəˈlɒŋ)
[f. ere prep. + long adv.; sometimes written as two words.]
Before long; before the lapse of much time; soon. Of future time; also (arch.) of past.
| 1577 Harrison England iii. viii. (1878) ii. 52 Whereby he receiued a wound that yer long killed him altogither. a 1586 Sidney (J.), Erelong he had not only gotten pity but pardon. 1714 H. Grove Spect. No. 635 ¶4, I..shall e'er long shoot away with the Swiftness of Imagination. 1777 Sir W. Jones Pal. Fortune 31 Erelong the damsel reach'd her native vale. 1809 Southey in Q. Rev. II. 60 English..will probably ere long be..blended with their language. 1850 Mrs. Browning Poems I. 331 Erelong Ye brake off in the middle of that song. |