earst
English
Adverb
earst (not comparable)
- Obsolete spelling of erst
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene (1921), Book I:
- So th' one for wrong, the other strives for right,
And each to deadly shame would drive his foe:
The cruell steele so greedily doth bight
In tender flesh that streames of bloud down flow,
With which the armes, that earst so bright did show,
Into a pure vermillion now are dyde: […]
- So th' one for wrong, the other strives for right,
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene (1921), Book I:
West Frisian
Etymology 1
From Old Frisian ērosta.
Inflection
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Further reading
- “earst (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011
Further reading
- “earst (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the main entry.
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