Front | nonce \nons\ |
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Back | noun The present or particular occasion. [1150–1200; ME nones, in phrase for the nones, by faulty division of for then ones for the once] "Her tendency to discover a touch of sadness had for the nonce disappeared" - Theodore Dreiser |
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