Crossword-Solution: NONCE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| Nonce | n. | The one or single occasion; the present call or purpose; -- chiefly used in the phrase for the nonce. |
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Poet’s word, with inverted comma, for the end of the day
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Hint 1 meaning
The old plural of Eye.
Hint 2 anagram
NEE
Hint 3 another clue
AND STILL ___
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Sentences with NONCE (5)
They sheared in the great barn, called for the nonce the Shearing-barn, which on ground-plan resembled a church with transepts.
These are not so much live usages in themselves as examples of a live meta-usage: that is, it has become a standard joke or linguistic maneuver to "explain" otherwise mysterious circumstances by inventing nonce particle names.
Orion (aside): Ho! seeker of knowledge, so grave and so wise, Touch her soft curl again--look again in her eyes; Forget for the nonce musty parchments, and learn How the slow pulse may quicken--the cold blood may burn.
Before long they come, gliding, graceful shadows, approaching circuitously, and halting occasionally to reconnoitre--tortoiseshell, tabby, and black, all domestic cats, but all transformed for the nonce into their natural state.
But the little, clay-bespattered Italians were still sleeping, the slatternly women across the aisle were in open-mouthed oblivion, and even the crumby, crying babies were for the nonce stilled.
Quotes with NONCE (2)
Because of social strictures against even the mildest swearing, America developed a particularly rich crop of euphemistic expletives - darn, durn, goldurn, goshdad, goshdang, goshawful, blast, consarn, confound, by Jove, by jingo, great guns, by the great horn spoon (a nonce term first cited in the Biglow Papers), jo-fired, jumping Jehoshaphat, and others almost without number - but even this cautious epithets could land people in trouble as late as the 1940s.
They should.""Should be like a wood bee," she said. It was a private joke, a mocking appreciation of the slipperiness of even the simplest hope, a nonce catchphrase like so many others lifted from favorite movies or TV shows that served as a rote substitute for conversation and bound them like shut-in twins, each other's best and, most often, only audience.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, S&S, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 113 times in crossword archives (1950–2023).