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since (iou)



since adverb, conjunction, preposition, & adjective. LME.
[Contr. of SITHENCE, or from SIN adverb + -S3 (cf. HENCE for the -ce spelling).]
A. adverb.
Then; immediately afterwards. LME-M16.
a. From that time until now or until the time being considered. Freq. preceded by ever. LME.
I. Colegate He had been elected to Parliament in 1934 and had been there ever since. M. Keane A mammoth range..installed in..1897..had devoured coal with voracious greed ever since.
b. At some or any time between that time and now or that time and the time being considered. M16.
G. Greene Smashed last week, and I haven't been into town since. Daily Mirror Scotland Yard have since taken out a warrant for his arrest.
Ago; before now. Preceded by a specified interval of time or long. L15.
A. Carter The tribe had long since abandoned this pursuit. Country Walking The time, a hundred years since, when foxes were imported.
b. conjunction.
I. From the time that.
During or in the time subsequent to that when. LME.
J. Simms Since we came to Paris I have started again. R. Cobb He seemed to have put on..weight since I had last seen him.
With preceding interval of time specified: from the time in the past when. Also (arch.), that. M16.
J. Conrad It was..years since I had seen the sun set over that land. W. Golding It is a long time since God had Wiltshire to himself.
Up to the present time or the time being considered from the time in the past when. Freq. with ever. M16.
A. Brookner She has known him so longsince she was a child. Punch Since he moved..he has been doing even better.
b. With verbs of recollection: the time when; when. L16-L17.
Shakespeare Winter's Tale Remember since you ow'd no more to time Than I do now.
II.
Because, seeing that. Formerly also foll. by that. LME.
Ellis Peters Cadfael did not..ask, since he was about to be told.
C. preposition. During or throughout the period between (a specified time or event in the past) and the present time or the time being considered; at some time subsequent to or after. E16.
J. Conrad Unchanged since the days of his boyhood. E. Waugh She had been hard at it since..seven. D. Abse The first time I had seen him since the funeral.
D. adjective. That has been since; former, past. rare. L16.
J. A. Froude My since experience of Sunday evenings.