Ere
conjunction
Before (a specified time). It's an old fashioned way to say 'before'.
Make certain it's done ere nightfall.
Often appears as...
- ere nightfall
- ere long
Usage tips
Formal
Literary,Poetic
preposition
Before (a specified time). It's an old fashioned way to say 'before'.
We must arrive there ere noon.
Often appears as...
- ere noon
- ere night
Usage tips
Formal
Literary,Poetic
conjunction
Before (a specified time). It's an old fashioned way to say 'before'.
Make certain it's done ere nightfall.
Often appears as...
- ere nightfall
- ere long
Usage tips
Formal
Literary,Poetic
preposition
Before (a specified time). It's an old fashioned way to say 'before'.
We must arrive there ere noon.
Often appears as...
- ere noon
- ere night
Usage tips
Formal
Literary,Poetic
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Used in storytelling
Often found in narratives to create a historical or fantastical tone.
Ere the age of kings, there lived a humble smith.
Pro Tip 2/3Pair with 'long'
Commonly used with 'long' to express something will happen soon.
We shall see victory ere long.
Pro Tip 3/3Emphasizes urgency
Adds a sense of urgency or importance to the time element.
Finish your tasks ere the clock strikes twelve.
Pro Tip 1/3Used in storytelling
Often found in narratives to create a historical or fantastical tone.
Ere the age of kings, there lived a humble smith.
Pro Tip 2/3Pair with 'long'
Commonly used with 'long' to express something will happen soon.
We shall see victory ere long.
Pro Tip 3/3Emphasizes urgency
Adds a sense of urgency or importance to the time element.
Finish your tasks ere the clock strikes twelve.
Pro Tip 1/3Used in storytelling
Often found in narratives to create a historical or fantastical tone.
Ere the age of kings, there lived a humble smith.
Pro Tip 2/3Pair with 'long'
Commonly used with 'long' to express something will happen soon.
We shall see victory ere long.
Pro Tip 3/3Emphasizes urgency
Adds a sense of urgency or importance to the time element.
Finish your tasks ere the clock strikes twelve.
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Introducing a New Baby...
that I'm sure there would be lots of trackers and that would be confused having seen only one little baby hyena trek right folks we are going to keep on sitting ere it is so exciting and I'm sure the later it gets the more that
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Stephen Burt: Why people...
Take my hand quick and tell me, What have you in your heart. Speak now, and I will answer; How shall I help you, say; Ere to the wind's twelve quarters I take my endless way." Now, this poem has appealed
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Ladies and gentlemen,...
oppression bitter or ere this i should have fatted all the region kites with this slave's awful bloody body villain remorseless treacherous lecherous kindness villain of bechet's what a
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Introducing a New Baby...
that I'm sure there would be lots of trackers and that would be confused having seen only one little baby hyena trek right folks we are going to keep on sitting ere it is so exciting and I'm sure the later it gets the more that
Video examples
Stephen Burt: Why people...
Take my hand quick and tell me, What have you in your heart. Speak now, and I will answer; How shall I help you, say; Ere to the wind's twelve quarters I take my endless way." Now, this poem has appealed
Video examples
Ladies and gentlemen,...
oppression bitter or ere this i should have fatted all the region kites with this slave's awful bloody body villain remorseless treacherous lecherous kindness villain of bechet's what a
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Quote examples
John C. Calhoun
American Statesman
Restore, without delay, the equilibrium between revenue and expenditures, which has done so much to destroy our credit and derange the whole fabric of government. If that should not be done, the government and country will be involved, ere long, in overwhelming difficulties.
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Joseph Hume
Scottish Scientist
Destroy or take away the employment and wages of those artisans - which the corn laws in a great measure do - and you will, ere long, render the land in Great Britain of as little value as it is in other countries.
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Thomas Becket
English Clergyman
In truth, we have delayed to pass sentence on the person of our lord the king, waiting, if perhaps he may, by God's grace, repent; but we will pass it ere long unless he does repent.
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Charles Lyell
British Lawyer
That ere long, now that curiosity has been so much excited on this subject, some human remains will be detected in the older alluvium of European valleys, I confidently expect.
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Samuel Butler
British Poet
If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall ere long be surprised to find how little remains that we cannot do.
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Edward McKendree Bounds
American Author
The preachers who gain mighty results for God are the men who have prevailed in their pleadings with God ere venturing to plead with men.
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Jean Paul
German Author
There are souls which fall from heaven like flowers, but ere they bloom are crushed under the foul tread of some brutal hoof.
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Benjamin Franklin
American Politician
Buy what thou hast no need of and ere long thou shalt sell thy necessities.
Quote examples
John C. Calhoun
American Statesman
Restore, without delay, the equilibrium between revenue and expenditures, which has done so much to destroy our credit and derange the whole fabric of government. If that should not be done, the government and country will be involved, ere long, in overwhelming difficulties.
Quote examples
Joseph Hume
Scottish Scientist
Destroy or take away the employment and wages of those artisans - which the corn laws in a great measure do - and you will, ere long, render the land in Great Britain of as little value as it is in other countries.
Quote examples
Thomas Becket
English Clergyman
In truth, we have delayed to pass sentence on the person of our lord the king, waiting, if perhaps he may, by God's grace, repent; but we will pass it ere long unless he does repent.
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Charles Lyell
British Lawyer
That ere long, now that curiosity has been so much excited on this subject, some human remains will be detected in the older alluvium of European valleys, I confidently expect.
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Samuel Butler
British Poet
If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall ere long be surprised to find how little remains that we cannot do.
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Edward McKendree Bounds
American Author
The preachers who gain mighty results for God are the men who have prevailed in their pleadings with God ere venturing to plead with men.
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Jean Paul
German Author
There are souls which fall from heaven like flowers, but ere they bloom are crushed under the foul tread of some brutal hoof.
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Benjamin Franklin
American Politician
Buy what thou hast no need of and ere long thou shalt sell thy necessities.
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