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Answer for the clue "The present occasion ", 5 letters:
nonce

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
abstracted from phrase for þe naness (c.1200) "for a special occasion, for a particular purpose," itself a misdivision (see N for other examples) of for þan anes "for the once," in reference to a particular occasion or purpose, the þan being from Middle ...

Usage examples of nonce.

Personally I enjoy a siesta around this time, and I can testify to the fact that those who doze in the Nonce do not conjure ordinary dreams.

Let us put on and suffer for the nonce The feverish fleshings of Humanity, And join the pale debaters here convened.

There, on the nonce, the forenamed Baden prince Was joined to Stephanie Beauharnais, her Who stands as daughter to the man we wait, Some say as more.

SPIRIT IRONIC Yea, the dull peoples and the Dynasts both, Those counter-castes not oft adjustable, Interests antagonistic, proud and poor, Have for the nonce been bonded by a wish To overthrow thee.

For the nonce, the cool gusts of midnight suited her, cooled the fevered sweat of wine gone cruel and reminded her the world was a place of the senses and not only of the mind.

For the nonce, Master Mohamad had placed a rough wooden support of boards and sawhorses under her body and partially slacked the ropes of the rack.

They got into the car pretty much not caring for the nonce a whit about Zombies.

She had enough problems of her own for the nonce, without conjecturing about his.

Count Jean, who for the nonce was in alliance with the Constable De Richemont, was meditating something against him.

I suggest we leave this pocket and meet here annually for the nonce on or about this date.

He was suspended, for the nonce, by a block and tackle, and being swung backward and forward, gave such loud and clear testimony to his own merits, that the auctioneer had no need to say a word.

For the nonce I am Nisbet the quarryman, with far too many columns to raise and far too much work on order.

I recalled, before there was any actual fatality, the National Astral Spellcraft Administration had grown smart for the nonce and consulted the local Indians.

Hill on the Island, in with the nonces and the gas-meter bandits, the slag!

If Georgio can get a weapon, he can quite happily do all the nonces over.