Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Before this time; heretofore.
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- adverb archaic
before now
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Examples
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But I wrote herebefore that deployments are like snowflakes.
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But I wrote herebefore that deployments are like snowflakes.
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They all admired to see the foresaid riches in such dearth of money as was herebefore.
Ulysses 2003
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Of all the battles and encounterings that I have made mention of herebefore in all this history, great or small, this battle that I treat of now was one of the sorest and best foughten without cowardice or faint hearts.
Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series) Thomas Malory Jean Froissart
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Zulu's compatriot, The Young Pole, and that herebefore introduced pimp,
The Enormous Room 1928
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They all admired to see the foresaid riches in such dearth of money as was herebefore.
Ulysses James Joyce 1911
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Ye have heard herebefore of the order of the Englishmen, how they went in three battles, the marshals on the right hand and on the left, the king and the prince of Wales his son in the midst.
The Campaign of Crecy. Of the Great Assembly That the French King Made to Resist the King of England 1909
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OF all the battles and encounterings that I have made mention of herebefore in all this history, great or small, this battle that I treat of now was one of the sorest and best foughten without cowardice or faint hearts.
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Whosoever will know and understand well and perfectly the noble virtue and noble mystery that in the exposition of the mass is, let him well consider and imprint right perfectly within his heart all those things that herebefore are contained, and the creature thus doing shall mowe have certain knowledge of God, and shall mowe ordain and dress his conscience after that before is said.
The Golden Legend, vol. 7 1230-1298 1900
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A few days before the momentous one herebefore described he had called at Madame Lecyr's house, and, in course of conversation, told her that the Avocat's health was breaking; that the day before he had got completely fogged in court over the simplest business, and was quite unlike his old, shrewd, kindly self.
The Lane That Had No Turning, Volume 4 Gilbert Parker 1897
reesetee commented on the word herebefore
(Obsolete) 1. Earlier in this document; herein before. 2. Before this time; before now; in time past.
February 5, 2008