erenow, adv.
(ɛəˈnaʊ)
Forms: see ere and now; often as two words.
Before this time.
| c 1340 Cursor M. 2982 (Trin.) She is clene as she was ar now. Ibid. 17785 (Fairf.) Ye wold nevir yt leve or now. 1393 Langl. P. Pl. C. viii. 181 Ich seyh neuere palmere with pyk ne with scrippe Asken after hym, er now in þys ilke place. 1553 T. Wilson Rhet. (1567) 47 b, He hath made suche shiftes for money ere-now, that, etc. 1577 tr. Bullinger's Decades (1592) 258 The very same words, that other before me..haue vsed yer now. 1673 Dryden Conq. Granada (J.), My father has repented him erenow. 1774 Goldsm. Nat. Hist. (1776) II. 384 The whole species would have ere now been extinguished. 1828 Hawthorne Fanshawe viii. (1879) 140, I have done enough, erenow, to insure its heaviest weight. |