Meanings
- archaicArchaic spelling of sometime.
Sometimes it'll make a leitmotiv of a famous line like Thomas Wyatt's "They fle from me that sometyme did me seke," flashing the line again and again in different contexts.
1988 February 26, Anthony Adler, “Anything Goes, Everything Fits”, in Chicago Reader, archived from the original on 15 Aug 2020
- not comparableobsoleteObsolete form of sometime.
The records of Stepney parish note the burial of Henry Rainsford "an old sailer sometyme beadle of Ratclife and now a pencioner."
2002, Cheryl A. Fury, Tides in the Affairs of Men
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sometyme. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sometyme
“sometyme.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sometyme. Accessed November 4, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “sometyme,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sometyme.
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