Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Older form of
betimes .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In good season or time; before it is late; seasonably; early.
- adverb In a short time; soon; speedily; forth with.
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- verb intransitive To
occur ;betide . - adverb
betimes
Etymologies
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Examples
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Formerly 'betime'; "the final 's' is due to the habit of adding '- s' or '- es' to form adverbs; cf. 'whiles' (afterwards
The New Hudson Shakespeare: Julius Cæsar William Shakespeare 1590
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But his mention of Madonna got me hoping that it might betime for the material girl to stop in as a guest judge!
'Project Runway' Season 5: Let the games begin! | EW.com 2008
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Therefore, brethren, take we heed betime, while the day of salvation lasteth; for the night cometh, when none can work.
Ash Wednesday . . . Old School Fr Timothy Matkin 2008
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Therefore, brethren, take we heed betime, while the day of salvation lasteth; for the night cometh, when none can work.
Archive 2008-02-01 Fr Timothy Matkin 2008
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And in the morn betime, as those [5977] Lacedaemonian lasses saluted
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“‘To business that we love we rise betime and go to it with delight,’” Nectar quoted.
Wife in the Fast Lane Karen Quinn 2007
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“‘To business that we love we rise betime and go to it with delight,’” Nectar quoted.
Wife in the Fast Lane Karen Quinn 2007
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_And I my reading learnt betime From studying pocket-books.
Musa Pedestris - Three Centuries of Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes [1536 - 1896] John S. Farmer
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And so that day he took his lodging betime in a little town called Milly.
Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series) Thomas Malory Jean Froissart
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Then, surely it had been sleeping now with chubby limbs flung wide, its breathing so soft that you had to bend your ear to its red lips to hear it, had been lying wearied with dancing and mischief-making and shouting and toddling and falling, resting the night from a happy to-day till the dawn woke it betime for a happy to-morrow.
The Workingman's Paradise An Australian Labour Novel John Maurice Miller
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