nunc
Americanadverb
Example Sentences
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As is almost always the case with O, it wasn’t necessary: he’d had the definition exactly right in the first place: nunc dimittis is “the final song in a religious service”.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 26, 2017
Or, as Pliny the Younger might have said, “Ubi nunc est subcinericius panis, sterculus?”
From The Guardian ● Jan. 29, 2017
The resignation was made nunc pro tunc or “now for later”--to be dealt with when the pope had time for such matters.
From Newsweek ● Feb. 25, 2013
And, having read it, even Lawrentians may heed the mute nunc dimittis of their master's shade.
From Time Magazine Archive
From the vintage they travel to the Alps, 'a sight so majestic, so totally different from anything I had seen before, that I am ready to sing nunc dimittis,' she writes.
From A Book of Sibyls Miss Barbauld, Miss Edgeworth, Mrs Opie, Miss Austen by Ritchie, Anne Thackeray
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