'erstwhile self' is correct and can be used in written English.
It is typically used to mean something along the lines of “one’s former or previous self” or “one’s former status.” For example, "After years away, he returned to find his hometown unrecognizable and himself a mere shadow of his erstwhile self."
At times, the tale tacks toward wishful feminist fable, as when the erstwhile Puritan heroine, her "animal self" roused while spying on a tribal ceremony, sneaks off to dance half naked in the woods.
The metaverse themes synch well with the metatextual tendencies of the co-creator Dan Harmon, who is best known for fabricating the erstwhile NBC sitcom "Community," a self-aware treat served to a cult of smart alecks.
After last year's massive new space in New York, he's now opening an even larger one in rural Somerset British bearded ex-bad boy, self-described misanthrope, and erstwhile proprietor of Passerby, New York's much-missed 90s art-world nightclub.
At the end of the nineteen-fifties, Giacinto Scelsi, a self-taught Italian composer and erstwhile playboy count who had dabbled in Eastern religions and Theosophy, had the extraordinary idea of writing an entire work — the "Four Pieces" for chamber orchestra — that consisted of only single tones, one for each movement.
In the 1990s and the early years of this century Iranian filmmakers like Mohsen Makhmalbaf and Abbas Kiarostami, Mr. Panahi's erstwhile mentor, blended social inquiry with formal self-consciousness in a series of experiments that amounted to the invention of a new style.
The accumulation of endless, self-serving but also often self-subverting, easily refuted mendacity by the erstwhile leader of the free world the gaslighting has caused me to question my own sanity.
BOWERY BALLROOM 6 Delancey St. (212-533-2111) — May 26: Therstwhilele Brooklynite Tod A has returned from a self-imposed three-year exile.
This CNN piece examines Trump's shifting policy positions, noting his previous support for a single-payer health system, his previous self-identification as a Democrat and his erstwhile high praise for Hillary Clinton.
Initially self-published online in 2013, the strip follows erstwhile Olympian, newspaper columnist, and libertarian Sticks and her trails and tribulations in the Canadian wild, where she's fled after a scandal involving her politician father.
Initially self-published online in 2013, the strip follows erstwhile Olympian, newspaper columnist, and libertarian Sticks and her trails and tribulations in the Canadian wild, where she's fled after a scandal involving her politician father.
