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Vinony

whiles

conjunction

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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /(h)waɪlz/

adv

Etymology: From while (noun) + -s (adverbial suffix); compare whilst.

  1. sometimes; at times

    “Man, I've diverted myself whiles with the science of the stars, and can make a shape at calculating a nativity.”

  2. meanwhile

    “the good knight whiles humming to himself the lay of some majored troubadour”

conj

Etymology: From while (noun) + -s (adverbial suffix); compare whilst.

  1. while, whilst

    “Portia: […]Whiles we shut the gate upon one wooer, another knocks at the door.”

    “for it so falls out, That what we have we prize not to the worth Whiles we enjoy it; but being lack'd and lost, Why, then we rack the value, then we find The virtue that possession would not show us Whiles it was ours.”

noun

Etymology: See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

  1. plural of while

verb

Etymology: See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

  1. third-person singular simple present indicative of while