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Definition of 'whiles'

English

Adverb

(-)
  • (archaic|or|Scotland) sometimes; at times
  • *
  • (archaic|or|Scotland) meanwhile
  • * Sir Walter Scott
  • the good knight whiles humming to himself the lay of some majored troubadour

    Conjunction

    (en-con)
  • (archaic|or|dialect) while
  • * 1599 , (William Shakespeare), (Much Ado About Nothing) , Act IV, Scene 1, line 217
  • 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

    (head)
  • Verb

    (head)
  • (while)
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