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n. The present or particular occasion: "Her tendency to discover a touch of sadness had for the nonce disappeared” ( Theodore Dreiser).

n. A sex offender, especially of children; a paedophile.

n. A stupid or worthless person.

n. A datum constructed so as to be unique to a particular message in a stream, in order to prevent replay attacks.

n. In a security engineering context, a value used only once.

n. The one or single occasion; the present reason or purpose (now only in for the nonce).

n. A nonce word.

n. A number, usually generated randomly or from the time, used once in a cryptographic protocol, to prevent replay attacks.

adj. denoting something occurring once.

n. The one or single occasion; the present call or purpose; -- chiefly used in the phrase for the nonce, i. e. for the present time.

A word of no independent status, used only in the following phrases.

n. the present occasion

"In the United Kingdom and Australia, the term nonce sometimes spelled "nonse" is a slang word used to refer to a sex offender and/or child sexual abuser."

present    nowadays   

for the nonce    with the nones that   

for the nonce    nonce borrowing    nonce word   

use    occasional   

Hans    Ponce    Renaissance    ensconce    nonchalance    ponce    renaissance    response    sconce   

   vpright    /    trata    ==============    xchar