Mawson, C.O.S., ed. (1870–1938). Roget’s International Thesaurus. 1922.
Class I. Words Expressing Abstract Relations
Section VI. Time
2. Relative Time
1. Time with reference to Succession
118. Present Time.
NOUN:
THE PRESENT TIME, the present day, the present moment, the present juncture, the present occasion; the times, existing time, time being; twentieth century; crisis, epoch, day, hour.
age, time of life.
ADJECTIVE:
PRESENT, actual, instant, current, nonce, latest, existing, that is.
ADVERB:
AT THIS TIME, at this moment [See Instantaneity]; at the present time &c. n.; now, at present; at hand.
at this time of day, to-day, now-a-days; already; even now, but now, just now; on the present occasion; for the time being, for the nonce; pro hâc vice [L.]; on the nail, on the spot; on the spur of the moment, on the spur of the occasion.
UNTIL NOW; to this day, to the present day.
QUOTATIONS:
Upon this bank and shoal of time.—Hamlet
Unborn To-morrow and dead Yesterday.—Omar Khayyám—Fitzgerald
