Formerly [adverb]
Definition of Formerly:
previously in time or order
Synonyms of Formerly:
● Already
● Earlier
● Once
● Back
● Before
● Lately
● Eons ago
● Erewhile
● Long ago
● Of old
● Of yore
● Time was
Sentence/Example of Formerly:
Not less so is the barrenness of this country, which was formerly and usually the last resource.
That money was formerly collected and placed in the treasury through the intervention of the royal officials.
This waterway was recently discovered, and by it there is a better route to Terrenate than was formerly followed.
Counsellor Hagen, formerly secretary to the famous baron Gortz, shot himself through the head.
At the same time there is no doubt that New York did some of the business for herself that London had formerly done for her.
Latten, the term given to thin sheets of brass, was formerly applied to sheets of tinned iron.
There were formerly published Abstracts of several law books.
Water Street, formerly Water Lane, had a brook running down one side of it when houses were first built there.
Rioting, as an established social custom, disappeared in most of the places where it had formerly been so much practised.
Formerly charters were granted to corporations for a long term of years, or forever.