Nonce

Definition of Nonce

Pronunciation: nǒns
for the nonce, i. e. for the present time.
The miller was a stout carl for the nones.
- Chaucer.
And that he calls for drink, I 'll have prepared him
A chalice for the nonce.
- Shak.
n.1.The one or single occasion; the present call or purpose; - chiefly used in the phrase
Nonce word
"a word apparently employed only for the nonce".
- Murray (New English Dict.).

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contemporaneity, contemporaneousness, historical present, modernity, newness, now, nowadays, nowness, our times, present, present tense, presentness, the Now Generation, the nonce, the now, the present, the present age, the present day, the present hour, the present juncture, the present time, the time being, the times, these days, this day, this hour, this instant, this moment, this point, this stage, today
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