Meaning & use
Elsewise
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Otherwise; in another way or manner (archaic or dialectal).
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Bring an umbrella; elsewise you'll be soaked before you reach the station.
He had no elsewise plan, so he stuck with the original schedule.
A note on using this word
Elsewise is a now-rare alternative to 'otherwise,' still occasionally found in dialectal speech and older or deliberately archaic writing.
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