nonce in English

noun

1

a person convicted of a sexual offense, especially child molesting.

But why not give an amnesty to all the dopefiends, which would give us more space for the murderers, rapists, and nonces ?

adjective

1

(of a word or expression) coined for or used on one occasion.

a nonce usage

Use "nonce" in a sentence

1. Dotard, a-dozing at the very nonce.

2. Aphorismer meaning (nonce word, derogatory) A dealer in aphorisms.

3. Aphorismer (plural Aphorismers) (nonce word, derogatory) A dealer in aphorisms

4. This would dissolve a vocabulary into an infinite number of nonce words.

5. Bob is a fool, to be dozing at the very nonce.

6. Cette section énonce les règles précises servant à Coter chaque item.

7. The server answers with the same error code 401, a challenge 'nonce' and a hash algorithm identifier.

8. What does Ballocks mean? (nonce word, used only by James Joyce) Alternative form of bollocks

9. He knew that she was not making much headway with finding the nonce, but in fairness neither was he.

10. When enabled your templates rendered through vision will have script-nonce and/or style-nonce automatically added to their context, additionally request.plugins.Blankie.nonces will contain one or both of the 'script' and 'style' properties containing these values for use outside of vision.

11. Bolo (third-person singular simple present Bolos, present participle boloing, simple past and past participle boloed) (transitive, nonce word) To dress (somebody) in a bolo.

12. As nouns the difference between Copyleft and copywrong is that Copyleft is the philosophy of using copyrights to enforce freedom of information, especially software source code while copywrong is (nonce) the unethical use of, or disregard for, copyright law

13. Some are nonce words (to wondernize – ‘to make a wonder of’, 1599; to miraculize – ‘to transform [a person] with miracles’, 1751); many were—some might say ‘thankfully’—short-lived (to Abastardize, ‘to declare [someone] illegitimate’], 1574—1692; to accowardize, ‘to render [someone] cowardly’, 1480—1642).

14. Now when Kanmakan heard these words, he cried out, saying, “O villain, this I Bestride is the steed whereof ye speak and after which ye seek, and ye would do battle with me for his sake’ So come out against me, all of you at once, and do you dourest for the nonce!”