contemporaneity, modernity, nowadays, present, the the nonce, the present age, the present juncture, the times, this hour, this point
Definitionn. the present occasion
Last update: July 6, 2015
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(3) Both these explanations are forced, and it is more probable that by a make-believe common in all religions, and not unknown in the earliest church, the sins of dead relatives, about whose salvation their survivors were anxious, were transferred into living persons, who assumed for the nonce their names and were baptized in their behalf, so in vicarious wise rendering it possible for the sins of the dead to be washed away. [Please select]
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And the good doctor disappeared for the nonce, but was back in a couple of minutes, full of the lawyer's expostulations. [Please select]
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"Then that's over and done with, for the nonce at least." [Please select]
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We have heard a deal to-day about burying hatchets: bury thine for the nonce, Ralph Percy, and come drink with us. [Please select]
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For how you and I are to carry off mademoiselle under Mayenne's hand--well, I confess for the nonce that beats me. [Please select]
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I might name hues devised for the nonce, ver d'oye 'twixt green and yallow, peas-porridge tawny, popinjay blue, and the Devil-in-the-head. [Please select]
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Immediately every man of the ship's crew became for the nonce a Mexican wild-horse tamer. [Please select]
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There was a fortune waiting for special knowledge and a little ready cash; and Alexander Minchin settled down to make it, taking for the nonce a furnished house in a modest neighborhood. [Please select]
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