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Vinony

sometimes

adverb

  1. not always, but occasionally
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ˈsʌm.taɪmz/

adj

Etymology: From Middle English sumtymes, somtymes, som tymes, equivalent to sometime + -s (adverbial suffix). Compare West Frisian somstiden (“sometimes”), Dutch somtijds, somwijlen (“sometimes”).

  1. Former; sometime.

    “Farewell old Gaunt, thy ſometimes brothers wife / With her companion Greefe, muſt end her life.”

adv

Etymology: From Middle English sumtymes, somtymes, som tymes, equivalent to sometime + -s (adverbial suffix). Compare West Frisian somstiden (“sometimes”), Dutch somtijds, somwijlen (“sometimes”).

  1. On some occasions, over some periods, or in certain circumstances, but not always.

    “Sometimes I sit and think, but mostly I just sit.”

    “It is good that we sometimes be contradicted, and ill though of, and that we always bear it well, even when we deserve to be well spoken of : perfect peace and security cannot be had in this world.”

  2. On a certain occasion in the past; once.

    “What art thou that vſurp’ſt this time of night, / Together with that Faire and Warlike forme / In which the Maieſty of buried Denmarke / Did ſometimes march : By Heauen I charge thee ſpeake.”

    “For yee were sometimes darkenesse, but now are yee light in the Lord: walke as children of light […]”