Your Implorer,
C. L.
Etymology.
“For the NONCE.”
The original of nonce, an old word used by George Peel, is uncertain: it signifies purpose, intent, design.
I saw a wolf
Nursing two whelps; I saw her little ones
In wanton dalliance the teat to crave,
While she her neck wreath’d from them for the NONCE.
Spenser.
They used at first to fume the fish in a house built for the NONCE.
Carew.
When in your motion you are hot.
And that he calls for drink, I’ll have prepared him
A chalice for the NONCE.