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betimes

[ UK /bɪtˈa‍ɪmz/ ]
ADVERB
  1. in good time
    he awoke betimes that morning

How To Use betimes In A Sentence

  • People Rise Betimes to Quaff the Health-Giving Waters in Central Park.
  • When a day's work is to be done for God and souls it is good to begin betimes, and take the day before us. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John)
  • The situation involved is gathered up betimes, that is in the second chapter of Book The Ambassadors
  • And the LORD God of their fathers sent to them by his messengers, rising up betimes, and sending; because he had compassion on his people, and on his dwelling place:
  • Up betimes, and leaving my wife to go by coach to hear Mr. Frampton preach, which I had a mighty desire she should, I down to the Old Swan, and there to Michell and staid while he and she dressed themselves, and here had a 'baiser' or two of her, whom I love mightily; and then took them in a sculler (being by some means or other disappointed of my own boat) to White Hall, and so with them to Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1667 N.S.
  • It is good to begin betimes with the necessary restraints of children from that which is evil, before vicious habits are confirmed. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
  • As elsewhere in Canto 2, here the occasion for elegy is young male loveliness dead betimes: "Thou art gone, thou lov'd and lovely one,/Whom youth and youth's affection bound to me" (st. 'A darkling plain': Hemans, Byron and _The Sceptic; A Poem_
  • Did Monsieur your father guess how Andrea's affections have "-- I caught the word" miscarried "betimes, and substituted --" gone against his wishes, his opposition is not a thing to be doubted. The Suitors of Yvonne: being a portion of the memoirs of the Sieur Gaston de Luynes
  • His is indeed a calling of skill, not to wait for the cries of pain, but recognise betimes a sick body not yet conscious of its sickness.
  • Up very betimes and walked (my boy with me) to Mr. Cole’s, and after long waiting below, he being under the barber’s hands, I spoke with him, and he did give me much hopes of getting my debt that my brother owed me, and also that things would go well with my father.
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