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Discuss Email this Feedback RSS/XML Permalink A.Word.A.Day--nonce This week's theme: words formed by false splitting. nonce (nons) noun 1. The present or immediate occasion. 2. The time being. [From the phrase "for the nonce", a misdivision of "for then anes", from for + then (the) + anes (one).] Today's word in Visual Thesaurus. -Anu Garg (words at wordsmith.org) "I pursed my lips and set aside my thirst for the nonce." C Sanford Lowe and G David Nordley; Loki's Realm; Analog Science Fiction & Fact (New York); Jul/Aug 2007. X-Bonus After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on -- have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear -- what remains? Nature remains. -Walt Whitman, poet (1819-1892)

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