ere

«ere» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: before — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

kind

archaic word

modern equivalent

before

part of speech

conjunction

meaning for a pupil

before; earlier than a certain time. tree →

how it differs from today

No longer used in everyday speech; today we say before.

examples

• And the midwives said unto Pharaoh: 'Because the Hebrew women are not as the Egyptian women; for they are lively, and are delivered ere the midwife come unto them.' (Torah EXO.1.19, JPS 1917) tree →
• Ere long the dwarfs came trooping out till all were assembled. (The Green Fairy Book) tree →
• While the flesh was yet between their teeth, ere it was chewed, the anger of the LORD was kindled against the people, and the LORD smote the people with a very great plague. (Torah NUM.11.33, JPS 1917) tree →

primary record

before

tests

manual 10.4; corpora 40 (Torah 2, tales 38, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 4.5 (Torah alone 4.7); Wiktionary archaic (a sense)

In the corpora

• O thou sword of the LORD, how long will it be ere thou be quiet?

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «ere» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.