“…ere he fared forth into the great world to write his name across the stars and make an ancient throne his seat.”
-From an untitled draft of a Kull story
ere
er/
preposition & conjunction
literaryarchaic
preposition: ere; conjunction: ere
1. before (in time).
Origin
Old English ǣr, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch eer and German eher .
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