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still and anon

adv · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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adv

Meaning 1

Now and then.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: literary, not-comparable

Examples

  • 1881, Robert Louis Stevenson, “Yes, I remember, and, Still Remember Wailing” published posthumously in George S. Hellman and William P. Trent (eds.), Poems by Robert Louis Stevenson, Chicago, 1921, p. 121, And as across the smoothing sea we roam, Still and anon we sang our songs of home.

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