• somwhile(obsolete)

FromMiddle Englishsummehwile,summewile,sumwile, equivalent tosome +‎while. CompareDutchsomwijlen(“sometimes”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈsʌmʍaɪl/,/ˈsʌmwaɪl/

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somewhile (notcomparable)(chiefly poetic)

1. Sometimes; from time to time;at times
2. At a certaintime; at one time; for a non-defined length of time
   • 1579, Immeritô [pseudonym;Edmund Spenser], “May. Ægloga Quinta.”, inThe Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Iohn Wolfe for Iohn Harrison the yonger, […],→OCLC:

     Tho, under colour of shepeheards,somewhile / There crept in wolves, ful of fraude and guile.

   • 1868,Sidney Lanier,The Jacquerie. A Fragment,Chapter IV:

     Of him that spoke, and stopped at last, and sat
     Still, underneath where Gris Grillon was laid,
     And heard,somewhile, with languid scornful gaze,
     The friar putting blame on priest and knight.

   • 1915,Rupert Brooke,A Memory (poem):

     Somewhile before the dawn I rose, and stept
     Softly along the dim way to your room,
     And found you sleeping in the quiet gloom

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• “somewhile”, inWebster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.:G. & C. Merriam,1913,→OCLC.

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