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Ere   /ɛr/   Listen
preposition
Ere  prep., adv.  
1.
Before; sooner than. (Archaic or Poetic) "Myself was stirring ere the break of day." "Ere sails were spread new oceans to explore." "Sir, come down ere my child die."
2.
Rather than. "I will be thrown into Etna,... ere I will leave her."
Ere long, before, shortly.
Ere now, formerly, heretofore.


verb
Ere  v. t.  To plow. (Obs.) See Ear, v. t.





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"Ere" Quotes from Famous Books



... was touched on the nicest point—self; "that's true, you are only a doing your duty. Here, boy, fetch up that ere demi John of Madeira, and for aught I know, the young officer might like a drop o' long cork; bring us some tumblers, and one o' they claret bottles out o' the ...
— Frank Mildmay • Captain Frederick Marryat
... palace while the sun was still in part above the horizon. I was determined to reach the White Sphinx early the next morning, and ere the dusk I purposed pushing through the woods that had stopped me on the previous journey. My plan was to go as far as possible that night, and then, building a fire, to sleep in the protection of its glare. Accordingly, as we went along I gathered any sticks or ...
— The Time Machine • H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
... stood up and laid his hand upon his heart. "You remember what Van Artevelde said—'They shall murder me ere make me go the way that is not my way, for an inch.' I ...
— The Landleaguers • Anthony Trollope
... flies from, Into its hollow she drops, Crouches and clears her eyes from The wind-torn breaker-tops, Ere out on the shrieking shoulder Of a hill-high surge she drives. Meet her! Meet her and hold her! Pull for your ...
— Rewards and Fairies • Rudyard Kipling
... because it drowned or extinguished Blathmac with his posterity. Blathmac had a large family of sons and daughters but, owing to Mochuda's curse, their race became extinct. Next to the prince of Cluain Earaird who also had seized him by the hand, he said: "You shall be a servant and a bondman ere you die and you shall lose your territory and your race will be a servile one." To another of those who led him by the hand he said:—"What moved you to drag me by the hand from my own monastery?" The other replied:—"It pleased me not that a Munster man should have such honour in Meath." ...
— The Life of St. Mochuda of Lismore • Saint Mochuda


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