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3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Sometimes \Some"times`\, a. Former; sometime. [Obs.] Thy sometimes brother's wife. --Shak. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Sometimes \Some"times`\, adv [Sometime + adverbial ending -s, as in -wards.] 1. Formerly; sometime. [Obs.] That fair and warlike form In which the majesty of buried Denmark Did sometimes march. --Shak. 2. At times; at intervals; now and then;occasionally. It is good that we sometimes be contradicted. --Jer. Taylor. {Sometimes . . . sometimes}, at certain times . . . at certain other times; as sometimes he is earnest, sometimes he is frivolous. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: sometimes adv : on certain occasions or in certain cases but not always "sometimes she wished she were back in England"; "sometimes her photography is breathtaking"; "sometimes they come for a month; at other times for six months"
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