whilere

• while-ere

From Old English hwile ær, from hwīle (accusative singular of hwīl) +‎ ǣr; equivalent to while +‎ ere.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /wʌɪˈlɛː/

whilere (not comparable)

1. (archaic) A while ago; a short time before; lately; just now.
   • late 14^th C., Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canon's Yeoman's Tale:

     Helpeth me now, as I dide yow whileer;

   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.ix:

     We met that villen (God from him me blesse) / That cursed wight, from whom I scapt whyleare, / A man of hell, that cals himselfe Despaire […] .

   • 1610–1611, William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act III, scene ii], page 12:

     Caliban: Thou mak'ſt me merry : I am full of pleaſure, / Let vs be iocond. Will you troule the Catch / You taught me but whileare ?

• erewhile