17th century,Joseph Glanvill,Scepsis Scientifica: Or, Confest Ignorance, the Way to Science; in an Essay of the Vanity of Dogmatizing and Confident Opinion[1], published1885, page207:
Defects seem as necessary to ournow happiness as their Opposites.
1855, Conrad Swackhamer,The United States democratic review, volume 5:
The history of the infant colonies teaches us that the country comprised within the limits of thenow United States of America was originally patented in the reign of James I., of England, intotwo portions: that in less than eighty years from that period, the same was again divided intotwelve distinct provinces; athirteenth being after added in the creation of the State of Georgia.
1908,The English reports:
Where in assumpsit for money lent, the defendant pleaded that in an action in which thenow defendant was plaintiff, and thenow plaintiff was defendant,[…].
2010 March 17, “Radio 4 apologises for day old shipping forecast”, inThe Daily Telegraph[2]:
Radio 4's continuity announcer said at the end of the show: "As many of you will have noticed, that edition of The Now Show wasn't verynow. It was actually last week's programme. Our apologies for that."
2000, “Cooking the Books”, inBlack Books, season 1, episode 1 (television production):
Bernard: What does it do? Fran: It's very in. Bernard: You don't know what it is, do you? Fran: It's verynow.
(archaic,law) At the time thewill is written. Used in order to prevent anyinheritance from being transferred to a person of a future marriage. Does not indicate the existence of a previous marriage.
Now all this was very fine, but not at all in keeping with the Celebrity's character as I had come to conceive it. The idea that adulation ever cloyed on him was ludicrous in itself. In fact I thought the whole story fishy, and came very near to saying so.
Differently from the immediate past; differently from a more remote past or a possible future; differently from all other times.
Although the Celebrity was almost impervious to sarcasm, he wasnow beginning to exhibit visible signs of uneasiness, the consciousness dawning upon him that his eccentricity was not receiving the ovation it merited.
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(countable, chiefly in phenomenology) A particularinstant in time, as perceived at that instant.
a.1887 (date written), Emily Dickinson, “Forever is composed of Nows”, in Martha Dickinson Bianchi and Alfred Leete Hampson, editors,Further Poems of Emily Dickinson, Boston, Mass.:Little, Brown, and Company, published1929,page25:
Forever is composed ofNows— / 'T is not a different time, / Except for infiniteness / And latitude of home.
1982, Albert Hofstadter,The Basic Problems of Phenomenology, translation of original by Martin Heidegger,page249:
Time is not thrust together and summed up out ofnows, but the reverse: with reference to the now we can articulate the stretching out of time always only in specific ways.
Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor,A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published1867,page88
