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conjunction

Since conj. Seeing that; because; considering; formerly followed by that. "Since that my penitence comes after all, Imploring pardon." "Since truth and constancy are vain, Since neither love, nor sense of pain, Nor force of reason, can persuade, Then let example be obeyed."

Synonyms: Because; for; as; inasmuch as; considering. See Because.

preposition

Since prep. From the time of; in or during the time subsequent to; subsequently to; after; usually with a past event or time for the object. "The Lord hath blessed thee, since my coming." "I have a model by which he build a nobler poem than any extant since the ancients."

adverb

Since adv.

From a definite past time until now; as, he went a month ago, and I have not seen him since. "We since become the slaves to one man's lust."

In the time past, counting backward from the present; before this or now; ago. "How many ages since has Virgil writ?" "About two years since, it so fell out, that he was brought to a great lady's house."

When or that. (Obs.) "Do you remember since we lay all night in the windmill in St. George's field?"

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Etymology of 'Since'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Since" Quotes from Famous Books

... here translated "king" is hardly satisfactory, but perhaps nothing better can be substituted. Of course the idea "king" has crept in since the Spanish conquest. "Datto" or "chief" might be more satisfactory. What is really meant, however, is nothing exactly imaged by these words, but rather a sort of "head-man," a man more prominent and powerful ...

— Philippine Folk-Tales • Clara Kern Bayliss, Berton L. Maxfield, W. H. Millington,

... themselves, but truly wonderful, if we consider the disadvantages under which he laboured. Without the careful scientific training of Black, without the leisure and appliances secured by the wealth of Cavendish, he scaled the walls of science as so many Englishmen have done before and since his day; and trusting to mother wit to supply the place of training, and to ingenuity to create apparatus out of washing tubs, he discovered more new gases than all his predecessors put together had done. He laid ...

— Science & Education • Thomas H. Huxley

... opened fire from our Naval battery on Cove Redoubt. Captain Lambton had permitted the Natal Naval Volunteers to blaze away some of their surplus ammunition at the snipers. And blaze they did! Their 3-pounders kept up an almost continuous fire all the morning, and hardly a sniper has been heard since. There was ...

— Ladysmith - The Diary of a Siege • H. W. Nevinson

... once another upon whom your eyes loved to look?' he cried, half gladdened that he had found even this poor excuse to transfer the charge of blame from himself. 'And how can I tell but that you have met with him since?' ...

— Continental Monthly , Vol. 5, No. 6, June, 1864 - Devoted to Literature and National Policy • Various

... tears of shame. That evening with Vernon in the study, after the dinner at the Jolly Herring, had revived all his really warm affection for his little brother; and as he could no longer conceal the line he took in the school, they had been often together since then; and Eric's moral obliquity was not so great as to prevent him from feeling deep joy at the change for the better ...

— Eric • Frederic William Farrar

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