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(obsolete) At an earlier time. quotations
Thys is he of whome I spake, he that commeth after me, was before me be cause he was yer than I.
1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], John j:]
(poetic, archaic) Before; sooner than. quotations
Stirring ere the break of day.
1594, William Shakespeare, Lucrece (First Quarto), London: […] Richard Field, for Iohn Harrison, […]
The hill-tops rejoicing will ere long be at their ruddiest, and blush Good-night.
1837, Thomas Carlyle, chapter 6, in The French Revolution: A History […], volume II (The Constitution), London: Chapman and Hall, book IV (Varennes)
(poetic, archaic) Before. quotations
Sir, come down ere my child die.
1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], John 4:49
Ere sails were spread new oceans to explore.
1717, John Dryden [et al.], “(please specify |book=I to XV)”, in Ovid’s Metamorphoses in Fifteen Books. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […]
plural eres
Obsolete form of ear. quotations examples
As plesaunt to the ere as the blacke sanctus Of a sad sorte vpon a mery pyn.
1533, R. Saltwood, (Please provide the book title or journal name)