Meanings
- literarynot comparableNow and then.
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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And like the watchful minutes to the hour, Still and anon cheered up the heavy time.
c. 1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Iohn”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]It seem’d as if hell had burst forth in a crowd, And fury permitted to range; When still and anon was re-echo’d aloud— “Come forth, thou base tyrant! thou Odo the Proud! For Morcar and Hilda, revenge!”
1810, John Stagg, “Odo the Proud”, in The Minstrel of the North: or, Cumbrian Legends, London: for the author, page 374Synonyms: ever and anon
Synonyms & antonyms
adverbNow and then.
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