Category:Whilom

Whi"lom, adv. Etym: [as. hwilum, properly, at times, dative pl. of Hwil; akin to g. weiland formerly, ohg. hwilm, see while, n.]

Defn: formerly; once; of old; erewhile; at times. [obs. or poetic] Spenser. Whilom, as olde stories tellen us, there was a duke that highte Theseus. Chaucer.