nunc
Americanadverb
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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
Divisum est cor eorum, nunc interibunt--their heart is divided and they perish.
From The Hour Will Come: Volumes I and II A Tale of an Alpine Cloister by Wilhelmine von Hillern
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