nonce
nonce is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 1 sense, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.The one or single occasion; the present call or purpose; -- chiefly used in the phrase for the nonce. 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. Nonce word, "a word apparently employed only for the nonce". Murray (New English Dict. ).
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- abuse
- accent
- actual
- age
- alone
- already
- ambiguity
- anagram
- and
- another
- antiphrasis
- any
- aorist
- aoristic
- archaic
- archaism
- argot
- babu
- barbarism
- being
- black
- brogue
- broken
- but
- byword
- call
- cant
- century
- clinch
- coin
- coiner
- colloquial
- colloquialism
- confusion
- corruption
- crisis
- current
- day
- dialect
- different
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms & antonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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