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(for) a space
a. (for) a space: for a short period of time; for a while. Cf. sense 5a. Now rare.
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the world > time > duration > [adverb] > for a time
(for) a spacec1405
for a long, short, etc. season1465
a whilst1595
for a spell1745
c1405 (c1385) G. Chaucer Knight's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 2118 Theseus abiden hath a space Er any word cam from his wise brest.
a1450 York Plays (1885) 115 A starne to be schynyng a space.
c1530 A. Barclay Egloges iii. sig. N Ellys must he ryse and walke hymselfe a space.
1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VIII f. ccxxxviiiv She with all the Ladyes entered the tentes, and there warmed them a space.
1574 J. Higgins 1st Pt. Mirour for Magistrates Cordila f. 50v If I departed for a space withall.
1655 in W. B. Cook Stirling Antiquary (1900) II. 18 The session..suspends the sd William from his eldership for a space.
?1690 T. Watson in C. H. Spurgeon Treasury of David (1886) VII. Ps. cxxxvii. 1 The other leaves..for a space hang down their heads.
1720 A. Pope tr. Homer Iliad V. xviii. 389 Yet a space I stay, Then swift pursue thee on the darksome way.
1767 H. Hartson Countess of Salisbury v. 64 I wou'd have fled, but horror for a space Suspended every power.
1815 W. Scott Lord of Isles v. xxxiii. 216 He paused a space, his brow he cross'd.
1877 ‘H. A. Page’ T. De Quincey: Life & Writings I. ii. 26 Meantime deep peace fell for a space on the family.
1883 Longman's Mag. July 270 Knights!..leave him lying here a space.
1930 Africa 3 216 I have made a trial of them and waited a space and thought it over.
1972 Times Lit. Suppl. 22 Dec. 1561/5 There they simmer down for a space, forget their mundane cares.
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