latter

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Before, after and already
afore
afterwards
already
ante
as it isidiom
before
heel
in advanceidiom
in advance of something/someoneidiom
in the wake of somethingidiom
next
posterior
previous
prior
priorly
prologue
quondam
the next but oneidiom
upstream
wake

Examples from literature

Also, there were comings and goings, and the erstwhile placid atmosphere of the cabin was vexed with strange perturbations and unrest. 
Besides, he sought only the obscure hotels, where he was not likely to meet any of his erstwhile fellow passengers. 
In the first place, one of our erstwhile opponents is fighting against a much stronger enemy. 
The erstwhile amorous fiancée, who could hardly wait until marriage to test her lover, became now the wife and mother who hardly wished to be touched by her husband. 
This ghostly encroachment on our erstwhile quiet domain has had more than one inconvenient result. 

Examples of erstwhile

erstwhile
So erstwhile voluntary donors might well cease to donate.
The strategy may provide short-term visible gains in a reported and applauded 'presence' of women in negotiations and may usefully highlight their erstwhile-unnoticed absence.
But it is illegitimate to conclude that the erstwhile losers are all still losers.
The sounds erstwhile destined for heaven do not go to waste today; instead they are reflected back towards us as audience.
Spurred by scientific materialism, matter was encroaching on the erstwhile preserve of spirit.
The border separated many schools and colleges from their erstwhile catchment areas.
It is less so in the 1940s and 1950s, when the erstwhile rebels have themselves become the establishment.
She describes the stigma, the exclusion and rejection which her erstwhile friends and neighbours visited on her.
The main clause status of the erstwhile complements could be a sign of their nuclearity in the discourse.
Either eventuality would cast doubt on the value of a housewife's erstwhile contribution to the marriage and her status within it.
This complicated structure divided erstwhile opponents of government action, but it also divided advocates.
In fact, the memory of ballet's erstwhile oneness with the lyric genres had not even receded completely.
In the meantime, as elsewhere, erstwhile plan advocates found careers in government, public institutions or private enterprise.
The erstwhile winners are still winners : they will win under those ranking permutations that put the original constraints at the top.
Revenge was directed against erstwhile friends as well as professed enemies.
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