priorly

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

prior +‎ -ly

Adverb[edit]

priorly (not comparable)

  1. (archaic) previously
    • 1800, Alexander Geddes, Critical Remarks on the Hebrew Scriptures: Remarks on the Pentateuch:
      this single name, whencesoever it be derived, or whensoever it were given, cannot stand as a proof that the name Jehovah was known priorly to Moſes, against so positive a testimony as that of the passage in Exodus […]

References[edit]

“priorly”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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