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formerly
/ˈfɔɹmɚli/
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What does formerly mean?
adverb
- at some time in the past
- previously; once
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈfɔɹmɚli/
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Besides his sleeping-room and bath, there was a large room, formerly a painter’s studio, which he used as a study and office.
Other facts which he now recalled, and which he had formerly treated as lies and folly, now recurred to him as realities.
More book examples (3)
The Mariage de Victorine belongs to a well-known kind of literary exercise, which was formerly very much in honour in the colleges.
He had formerly been in business at Bristol, but failed in debt to a number of people, compounded and went to America.
I formerly saw the raccoon in the woods behind where my house is built, and probably still heard their whinnering at night.