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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

... good, generous young girl, fully my peer in education, my superior in many things.... You and mother can never believe that the ideas, standards—even the ideals of civilisation change—have changed since your youth—are changing every hour. In your youth the word actress had a dubious significance; to-day it signifies only what the character of her who wears the title signifies. In your youth it was immodest, unmaidenly, reprehensible, for a woman to be anything except timid, ...

— The Common Law • Robert W. Chambers

... way from Hongkong to New York, I assed a week in San Francisco. A long time had gone by since I had been in that city, during which my ventures in the Orient had prospered beyond my hope; I was rich and could afford to revisit my own country to renew my friendship with such of the companions of my youth as still lived and remembered me with the old affection. Chief of these, I hoped, ...

— Can Such Things Be? • Ambrose Bierce

... It was seven months since Sam Machell had started. He had gone at the rate of ten miles a day, and his interminable journey would last three months longer. His assistants in the laborious task comprised twenty dogs and thirty men, five of whom were blacks, and very serviceable ...

— In Search of the Castaways • Jules Verne

... my mother has taken to 'studying character,' don'cher know; she likes all sorts of people about her, and the more mixed they are the more she is delighted with them. Fact, I assure you! Quite a change has come over my mother since ...

— Ziska - The Problem of a Wicked Soul • Marie Corelli

... replied Barney, knitting his brows and looking extremely sagacious; "the fact is, since neither of us knows nothing about anything, or the way to any place, my advice is to walk straight for'ard till we ...

— Martin Rattler • R.M. Ballantyne

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