Former [adjective]

Without the former quality, knowledge of the past is uninstructive; without the latter, it is deceptive.

The enemy were pursued and annoyed by a few hundred of the citizens under Wooster and Arnold; the former was killed.

The latter trod on the toes of the former, whereupon the former threatened to "kick out of the cabin" the latter.

My husband detests them; on the contrary, I like those carriages, for they tell me of happy—I mean to say, of former times.

There seemed the flavour of some strange authority in her that baffled all approach to the former intimacy.

It had come into the family through the marriage of a former earl with the heiress of the great Chudleigh family.

The former, in its frozen state, somewhat resembled hard butter.

Here were the sources (in part) of the Po and of the Rhine, but I was rather in haste to bid the former good-bye.

The artist, though emphasizing the latter, can scarcely achieve power in this without also attaining the former.

A border feud at Reedsquair, between the English and Scottish marchmen, in which the former were completely beaten.