ere
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9.9
- adverb
- /ɛr/
- Archaic
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- Hitler's empire has crumbled and ere long will go down in history to an ignominious death.
- ere long
- ere many years
Examples
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That will be ere the set of the sun.
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I hope to finish my work ere the deadline arrives.
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And say I'll be there 'ere long
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To love that well which thou must leave ere long.
Blog text (29) -
Thou shalt ere long be free.
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Let two more summers wither in their pride ere we may think her ripe to be a bride.
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Blood hath been shed ere now, in the olden time.
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Thus, in many things, we Americans are driven to a rejection of the maxims of the past, seeing that, ere long, the van of the nations must, of right, belong to ourselves....
Academic text (1993) -
McGee concluded his preface by expressing "the hope that the whole subject may come, ere long, under the hands of a master who can make of it a story both Europe and America would love to listen to."
Academic text (2002) -
Yea, on the word of a Bloom, ye shall ere long enter into the golden city, which is to be the new Bloomusalem in the Nova Hibernia of the future.
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Etymology
Ere comes from the old English root ær, which means 'before'. You can see this root in early, so ere is a literary or archaic way to mean 'before'.