See whilst on Wiktionary
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"text": "[…] Ile nere be drunk whilſt I liue againe, but in honeſt, ciuill, godly company for this tricke: if I be drunke, Ile be drunke with thoſe that haue the feare of God, and not with drunken knaues.",
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"ref": "1939 September, D. S. Barrie, “The Railways of South Wales”, in The Railway Magazine, London: Tothill Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 161:",
"text": "Modern engine sheds of advanced design have also been built at Radyr, Abercynon, and elsewhere, whilst other depots have been remodelled and re-equipped.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1963, Margery Allingham, “The Boy in the Corner”, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC, page 214:",
"text": "The face which emerged was not reassuring. It was blunt and grey, the nose springing thick and flat from high on the frontal bone of the forehead, whilst his eyes were narrow slits of dark in a tight bandage of tissue.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Synonym of while",
"Besides; in addition."
],
"links": [
[
"while",
"while#Conjunction"
],
[
"Besides",
"besides"
],
[
"in addition",
"in addition"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, literary or rare in North America) Synonym of while",
"Besides; in addition."
],
"raw_tags": [
"in North America"
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "while"
}
],
"tags": [
"Commonwealth",
"Ireland",
"UK",
"literary",
"rare"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"British English",
"Commonwealth English",
"English links with manual fragments",
"English links with redundant alt parameters",
"English links with redundant wikilinks",
"English literary terms",
"English terms with rare senses",
"Irish English"
],
"glosses": [
"Synonym of while",
"Only if; provided that; as long as."
],
"links": [
[
"while",
"while#Conjunction"
],
[
"Only if",
"only if"
],
[
"provided",
"provided#Conjunction"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, literary or rare in North America) Synonym of while",
"Only if; provided that; as long as."
],
"raw_tags": [
"in North America"
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "while"
}
],
"tags": [
"Commonwealth",
"Ireland",
"UK",
"literary",
"rare"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/waɪlst/",
"tags": [
"General-American",
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ʍaɪlst/",
"note": "without the wine–whine merger"
},
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},
{
"rhymes": "-aɪlst"
},
{
"ipa": "/wɪlst/",
"tags": [
"UK",
"US",
"proscribed",
"sometimes"
]
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "whilest"
},
{
"word": "whylst"
},
{
"tags": [
"obsolete"
],
"word": "whylest"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"Cambridge University Press"
],
"word": "whilst"
}
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