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Webster's Unabridged Dictionary: Library in Itself

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Former

Former (former)
n.(?)
Form"er
  1. One who forms; a maker; a creator.
  2. A shape around which an article is to be shaped, molded, woven wrapped, pasted, or otherwise constructed.
    (b)

Former

Former (former)
a.(?)
For"mer
[A compar. due to OE. formest. See Foremost.]
  1. Preceding in order of time; antecedent; previous; prior; earlier; hence, ancient; long past.

    For inquire, I pray thee, of the former age. Job. viii. 8.

    The latter and former rain. Hosea vi. 3.

  2. Near the beginning; preceeding; as, the former part of a discourse or argument.
  3. Earlier, as between two things mentioned together; first mentioned.

    A bad author deserves better usage than a bad critic; a man may be the former merely through the misfortune of an ill judgment; but he can not be latter without both that and an ill temper. Pope.

    Syn. -- Prior; previous; anterior; antecedent; preceding; foregoing.













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