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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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"Since" Quotes from Famous Books

... how the report of a gun would have published our whereabouts, if there really were any lurkers near—a thing that I must say I now thought very probable, since the fact of there being a treasure in the cave, held sacred by the Indians, would, as a matter of course, render them ...

— The Golden Magnet • George Manville Fenn

... father of the Archbishop of Bourges left the kingdom for ever without one sou of all his possessions in France, and no resource but moneys remitted to Arabs and Saracens in Egypt. It is open to you to say that these examples are out of date, that three centuries of public education have since elapsed, and that the outlines of those ages are more or less dim figures. Well, young man, do you believe in the last demi-god of France, in Napoleon? One of his generals was in disgrace all through his career; Napoleon made him a marshal grudgingly, and never sent him on ...

— Eve and David • Honore de Balzac

... "since you force me to do it, I will confess, at whatever cost, that I have had a mistress for several years—I add that our relations ...

— La-bas • J. K. Huysmans

... him a push. "What's the use of your now following their lead again and falling on your knees?" she said. "But since you behave like this, wouldn't it be well if you also went ...

— Hung Lou Meng, Book II • Cao Xueqin

... halted in the thick woods at Banks' Ford, the point selected for crossing the river, and in a few minutes were quietly and comfortably bivouacked out of sight of rebels on the opposite side. Scarcely had we settled ourselves for a comfortable night's rest, when the clouds, which had been gathering since morning, broke in rain, and the delightful Indian summer gave way to the rainy winter of the south. All night long the rain poured, and all the next day. It was evident we had waited too long. But the commander was determined not ...

— Three Years in the Sixth Corps • George T. Stevens

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