Sometimes \Some"times`\, adv. [Sometime + adverbial ending -s,
as in -wards.]
1. Formerly; sometime. [Obs.]
That fair and warlike form In which the majesty of
buried Denmark Did sometimes march. --Shak.
2. At times; at intervals; now and then;occasionally.
It is good that we sometimes be contradicted. --Jer.
Taylor.
Sometimes . . . sometimes, at certain times . . . at
certain other times; as, sometimes he is earnest,
sometimes he is frivolous.
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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