单词 | here-and-nowness |
释义 | > as lemmashere-and-nowness = this place; (also) the present; the present life. Frequently in here and now; also as adv.phr.; so here-and-nowness. Also here and there n.phr. ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > the present (time) > [noun] instancec1374 nowa1393 presenta1425 nowadays?c1425 the time1484 presentens1509 here1608 present tense1630 now1633 the now1720 day1766 today1831 this day and age1832 of the period1859 nowaday1886 these days1936 the world > space > place > here, there, etc. > [noun] > here or this place here1608 the world > space > place > here, there, etc. > [phrase] > here > here and now here and now1829 hic et nunc1935 1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear i. 252 Thou loosest here, a better where to find. View more context for this quotation 1816 M. E. Bicknell Let. 26 Sept. in J. Constable Corr. (1964) II. 210 I know of no other plan but of my leaving here early on Monday. 1829 T. Carlyle in Foreign Rev. Dec. 117 With Him it is a universal Here and Now. 1838 C. Dickens Oliver Twist II. xxxiv. 269 I—I—ought to have left here before. 1839 C. Dickens Let. ?24 July (1965) I. 567 I dine in town tomorrow and shall leave for here at 10 at night. 1855 H. W. Longfellow Hiawatha Introd. 9 Full of all the tender pathos Of the Here and the Hereafter. 1857–8 E. H. Sears Athanasia 19 [Motion] requires a here and a there. 1857 C. Dickens Little Dorrit ii. xxxiv. 623 You would rather not leave here till to-morrow morning. 1874 ‘G. Eliot’ in Macmillan's Mag. XXXVIII. July 177 Widening his consciousness from Here and Now to larger wholes. 1887 H. R. Haggard Allan Quatermain xvi. 228 Here and now for thy dear sake I will forget my people and my father's house. 1922 W. S. Maugham On Chinese Screen xliii. 172 Your thoughts travel through time and space, far from the Here and Now. 1933 P. Godfrey Back-stage xiv. 176 Its romantic appeal is an escape from here and now into an artificial world of somewhere else or some time past. a1943 R. G. Collingwood Idea of Hist. (1946) 248 The detail of the here-and-now as given him in perception. 1957 C. Day Lewis Pegasus 56 The truant here-and-there of the Stour. 1959 Listener 26 Feb. 385/1 Whether Condorcet or Huxley is right is an undecidable question for us here and now. 1959 Times Lit. Suppl. 11 Sept. 522/3 All combine to form a subtle escape-route from the unwelcome here-and-now of the twentieth century. 1961 I. Murdoch Severed Head x. 85 She was all gentleness and filled with so genuine a concern to save me here and now from distress and anxiety. 1962 Listener 26 Apr. 717/2 Here and now Russia, while she does not want a war with us, is nevertheless our antagonist. 1963 Times 27 Feb. 13/1 They came, it seems, to a realization of the here-and-nowness of life. 1971 New Scientist 27 Apr. 263/1 Cocking's group have their minds firmly concentrated on the here-and-now. < as lemmas |
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