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† thereˈwhile, adv. Obs.
Forms: see there and while.
[ME. þer hwile, analysis not certain, but app. repr. an OE. (on) þǽre hwíle ‘in that time’, and thus, practically = the more usual the while, OE. þá hwile.
þer hwile had evidently come to be apprehended as a whole, and taken as an adv. before 1250, when it appears with advb. genitive -es, -s: see next. Cf. the while (OE.), the whiles c 1300, and the later while, whiles, advbs., both c 1300.]
a. During the time that; whilst; so long as.
b. During that time; the while; meanwhile.
c1220Bestiary (in O.E. Misc.) 784 Ne dar he stiren, ne noman deren, Ðer wile he laȝe and luue beren. 1340Ayenb. 213 Þer huile þet ich me solaci an playe, iche ne þenche none manne kuead. a1400–50Alexander 157 Many was þe bald berne at banned þar quile Þat euer he dured þat day. c1430Life St. Kath. Cont. (1884) 3 How þe Emperour..ther whyle sent pryue lettres. 1575Queen Elizabeth in Harington's Nugæ Ant. (ed. Park 1804) I. 126 Their-while I prepair my selffe to welcome deathe. 1617Hieron Wks. II. 66 What becommeth of the Spirit of God therewhile? Is it lost? |