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ˈsomewhiles, adv. Now dial. or arch.
Forms: 3 sumehwules, 6 sumwhiles, somwhyles, somwhiles, somewhyles, 6–7, 9 somewhiles.
[f. as prec. with genitive or plural -s. Cf. WFlem. somwijls, Du. somwijlen.]
†1. At some former time; formerly. Obs.—1
a1225Ancr. R. 276 Bihold, holie men þet weren sumehwules, hwu heo uesten, & hwu heo wakeden.
2. On some occasion(s); sometimes.
Freq. in the latter half of the 16th c.
1528Tindale Obed. Chr. Man 150 b, The very Gods them selves which sell their pardone so good chepe or some whiles geve them frely for glory sake. 1559Mirr. Mag. (1563) A iij, We let hang the true man somwhyles to saue a thefe. 1594Carew Huarte's Exam. Wits x. (1596) 144 The profession of which they haue made choice (though somwhiles vnworthy). 1626Fenner Hidden Manna (1652) B iij, For the Understanding and Will are somewhiles like Simeon and Levi. 1681R. L'Estrange Tully's Offices 131 Without need some whiles of any other Company. c1863S. S. Jones Northumbld., etc. 129 There was yen o' them it [= that] somewhiles did nae make things sae smooth as they might have been. 1890D. G. Mitchell English Lands II. iii. 107 Among other writers..who went somewhiles to these suppers..was James Howell. 1901A. J. Davies Athirt Downs ii. iv. 72 Takes a deal of following somewhiles, that it do.
b. With correlatives, esp. somewhiles{ddd}, somewhiles, = sometimes 1 b.
(a)1547J. Harrison Exhort. Scottes c vj b, Britayne was not always..vnder one Kyng.., but was gouerned somwhiles by one, and somwhiles by mo. 1606G. W[oodcocke] Hist. Ivstine iv. 21 The wind..sendeth foorth in many places, some-whiles flashes of fyre, other some-whiles againe most..dangerous vapors. 1612Davies Why Ireland, etc. (1747) 16 Some whiles one prevailing,..somewhiles the other.
(b)a1553Udall Royster D. i. i, Sometime Lewis Loytrer biddeth me come neere; Somewhyles Watkin Waster maketh vs good cheere. 1560Whitehorne Arte Warre 42 b, Some whiles thei fought with the enemies horses, an other while, thei rescued the fotmen. 1565Allen Defence Purg. xv. 272 One while by the praysies of the doctors and antiquitye, and sumwhiles by thabasing of theime ageine.
†3. At some time before. Obs.—1
1657W. Rand tr. Gassendi's Life Peiresc ii. 254 Having some whiles before procured [an]..Edition of his Divine Poems. |