ere
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9.9
- adposition
- /ɛr/
- Archaic
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- Ere humane statute purged the gentle weal...
Examples
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And look... thou meet me ere the first cock crow.
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And look thou meet me ere the first cock crow.
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That would be ere the set of sun.
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We may effect this business yet ere day.
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That was given ere the day I was born?
Blog text (5) -
A little month, or ere those shoes were old with which she followed my poor father's body, like Niobe, all tears.
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I have inly wept, or should have spoke ere this.
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4:49 The nobleman saith unto him, Sir, come down ere my child die.
Blog text (4) -
Sheep needed to range far to scour a meal from the steep mountainsides that ringed the valley round, and a shepherd needed legs more tireless than his own to bring a flock back safe to the fold ere darkness fell and wolves were a certainty.
Fiction book (1994) -
You should finish your homework ere the sun sets.
Synonyms
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9.9
Used in old language to mean in front of someone or before a time
Antonyms
Surface Forms
Etymology
Ere comes from an old English root ær that means 'before'. It is the same idea you find in the word early, so ere is a short, old-fashioned or poetic way to say 'before'.