Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for SOME-TIME
SOME-TIME, adv. [some and time.]
- Once; formerly. That fair and warlike form, / In which the majesty of buried Denmark / Did sometime march. – Shak.
- At one time or other hereafter. [Sometime is really a compound noun, and at is understood before it; at some time.]
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