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| PRONUNCIATION: |  ôr |
| CONJUNCTION: | Archaic Before. Followed by ever or ere: “I doubt he will be dead or ere I come” (Shakespeare). | | PREPOSITION: | Before. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Middle English, variant of er, from Old English  r, soon, early, and from Old Norse  r. See ayer- in Appendix I.
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