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Erelong. World English Historical Dictionary

Erelong. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1897, rev. 2025. Erelong adv. [f. ERE prep. + LONG adv.; sometimes written as two words.] Before long; before the lapse of much time; soon. Of future time; also (arch.) of past.

1 1577.  Harrison, England, III. viii. (1878), II. 52. Whereby he receiued a wound that yer long killed him altogither.

2 1580.  Sidney, Arcadia (1590), 146 b (J.). Ere long he had not only gotten pitie, but pardon.

3 1714.  H. Grove, Spect., No. 635, ¶ 4. I … shall e’er long shoot away with the Swiftness of Imagination.

4 1777.  Sir W. Jones, Pal. Fortune, 31. Erelong the damsel reach’d her native vale.

5 1809.  Southey, in Q. Rev., II. 60. English … will probably ere long be … blended with their language.

6 1850.  Mrs. Browning, Poems, I. 331. Erelong Ye brake off in the middle of that song.

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