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Webster 1913 Edition

adv.

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While

ere

]

A little while ago; recently; just now; erewhile.

[Obs.]

Helpeth me now as I did you

whilere

Chaucer.

He who, with all heaven’s heraldry,

whilere

Entered the world.

Milton.

adv.

[while and ere.] A little while ago.

whilere ‎(not comparable)

(archaic) A while before; a short time ago.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.ix:
  We met that villen (God from him me blesse) / That cursed wight, from whom I scapt whyleare, / A man of ****, that cals himselfe Despaire [...].