elsewhen
At some other time or times; somewhen else.
Adverb
- At some other time or times; somewhen else.
- And thus for this time I will take my leave of your mastership, purposing elsewhen to trouble you with the talk of longer letters, if I may learn that your gentleness will warrant my boldness therein. - 1552 July 21,...
- On the Saturday following, her [Alice Benden's] husband [Edward Benden] willed her to go to church; which she both then and elsewhen refused to go. - 1563, John Foxe, “The Order of the Imprisonment and Tragical Handling...
- Never, elsewhen, from heaven when all serene / Fell there more levin-bolts; nor flamed so oft / Comets with curses fraught. - 1854, Virgil, “The First Georgic”, in W[illiam] Sewell, transl., The Georgics of Virgil,...
Origin
From Middle English ellys whan; corresponding with else + when.
Related
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