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  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Whilom  \Whi"lom\  (hw[imac]"l[u^]m),  adv  [AS.  hw[=i]lum, 
  properly,  at  times,  dative  pl  of  hw[=i]l;  akin  to  G.  weiland 
  formerly,  OHG.  hw[=i]l[=o]m,  See  {While},  n.] 
  Formerly;  once;  of  old  erewhile;  at  times.  [Obs.  or  Poetic] 
  --Spenser. 
 
  Whilom,  as  olde  stories  tellen  us  There  was  a  duke 
  that  highte  Theseus.  --Chaucer. 

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