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# anon

«anon» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: **at once; soon** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### kind

archaic word

### modern equivalent

at once; soon

### part of speech

adverb

### meaning for a pupil

Soon, shortly, or straight away. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/A/anon/#m1)

### how it differs from today

Old-fashioned today; we say soon or at once. The sentences use the same meaning.

### examples

- Anon he caught the word Peter. (Peter Pan) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/A/anon/#x1)
- Ever and anon the light from his cigar gave a touch of colour to his face. (Peter Pan) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/A/anon/#x2)
- Anon I thought of the mourning mother beneath the cross at Golgotha, so deep was the expression of pain. (Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/A/anon/#x3)

### primary record

anon

### tests

manual 10.3; corpora 8 (Torah 0, tales 8, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 0.9 (Torah alone 0.0); Wiktionary archaic (a sense)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «anon» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/A/anon/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.