Defn: Having been formerly; former; late; whilom.
Our sometime sister, now our queen. Shak.
Ion, our sometime darling, whom we prized. Talfourd.
SOMETIMES Some"times`, adv. Etym: [Sometime + adverbial ending -s, as in - wards.]
1. Formerly; sometime. [Obs.] That fair and warlike form In which the majesty of buried Denmark Did sometimes march. Shak.
2. At times; at intervals; now and then;occasionally. It is good that we sometimes be contradicted. Jer. Taylor. Sometimes . . . sometimes, at certain times . . . at certain other times; as, sometimes he is earnest, sometimes he is frivolous.
SOMETIMES
Some"times`, a.
Defn: Former; sometime. [Obs.]
Thy sometimes brother's wife. Shak.
SOMEWHAT
Some"what`, n.
1. More or less; a certain quantity or degree; a part, more or less; something. These salts have somewhat of a nitrous taste. Grew. Somewhat of his good sense will suffer, in this transfusion, and much of the beauty of his thoughts will be lost. Dryden.
2. A person or thing of importance; a somebody. Here come those that worship me. They think that I am somewhat. Tennyson.
SOMEWHAT
Some"what`, adv.