LekhoriLekhoriOn some occasions, over some periods, or in certain circumstances, but not always.
Sometimes I sit and think, but mostly I just sit.
On a certain occasion in the past; once.
What art thou that vſurp’ſt this time of night, / Together with that Faire and Warlike forme / In which the Maieſty of buried Denmarke / Did ſometimes march : By Heauen I charge thee ſpeake.
Former; sometime.
Farewell old Gaunt, thy ſometimes brothers wife / With her companion Greefe, muſt end her life.
From Middle English sumtymes, somtymes, som tymes, equivalent to sometime + -s (adverbial suffix). Compare West Frisian somstiden (“sometimes”), Dutch somtijds, somwijlen (“sometimes”).
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